Fingerprinting Popular Culture The Mythic and the Iconic in Indian Cinema
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2007
- 197p
includes index and biblioraphy
Popular cinema, India, and Fantasy ........1 Structure and Form in Indian Popular Film Narrative .......24 All Kinds of Hindi: The Evolving Language of Hindi Cinema ......51 The Comic Collapse of Authority: An Essay on the Fears of the Public Spectator ........87 The Voice of the Nation and the Five- Year Plan Hero: Speculations on Gender, Space, and Popular Culture .122 The mapping of Guru Dutt`s Comedic Vision ........156