Vasudevan, Ravi The melodramatic public : film form and spectatorship in Indian cinema / Ravi Vasudevan . - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 xvii, 457 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. MRP by Sunetra Mitra Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: MELODRAMATIC AND OTHER PUBLICS * Shifting Codes, Dissolving Identities: Realist Art Cinema Criticism and Popular Film Form * The Politics of Cultural Address in a 'Transitional' Cinema * Neither State Nor Faith: Mediating Sectarian Conflict in Popular Cinema * A Modernist Public: The Double Take of Modernism in the Work of Satyajit Ray * PART II: CINEMA AND TERRITORIAL IMAGINATION IN THE SUBCONTINENT: TAMILNADU AND INDIA * Voice, Space, Form: the Symbolic and Territorial Itinerary of Mani Rathnams Roja (1992) * Bombay (Mani Rathnam, 1995) and Its Publics * Another History Rises to the Surface: Melodrama in the Age of Digital Simulation: Hey Ram! (Kamalahasan, 1999) * PART III: MELODRAMA MUTATED AND DIFFERENTIATED: NARRATIVE FORM, URBAN VISTAS AND NEW PUBLICS IN A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT * Selves Made Strange: Violent and Performative Bodies in the Cities of Indian Cinema 19742003 * The Contemporary Film Industry I: The Meanings of 'Bollywood. ISBN 9780230247642 (hardback) : 0230247644 (hardback) : * Motion pictures - India. * Melodrama in motion pictures. * Motion pictures - Social aspects - India.
