The Politics of India's Conventional Cinema: Imaging a Universe,
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This book challenges the widely held belief that India's mainstream cinema is pure entertainment and entirely fantasy-oriented. Instead, the author shows how conventional cinema voices the concerns of the people and is essentially political, in that it is a major cultural and ideological force that not only reflects reality, but constructs it.
Author: Fareed Kazmi
Format: Paperback, 252 pages
Published: 1998, SAGE Publications Inc, United States
Genre: Communication & Media
This book challenges the widely held belief that India's mainstream cinema is pure entertainment and entirely fantasy-oriented. Instead, the author shows how conventional cinema voices the concerns of the people and is essentially political, in that it is a major cultural and ideological force that not only reflects reality, but constructs it.