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  • Without Empathy

    Irony and the Satirical Impulse in Eight Major Filmmakers

    by MK Raghavendra ...
    Irony and the satirical impulse in cinema have gradually lost favor, mockery increasingly more selective in its choice of targets. As Linda Hutcheon notes, irony is becoming a problematic mode of expression in the twenty-first century.The book examines the work of eight film auteurs: Luis Bunuel, R.W. Fassbinder, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Paul Verhoeven, Aki Kaurismaki, Aleksei Balabanov and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Subject of the Nation and his 'Others' in Hindi Cinema

    Gender, Religious, Caste, and Ethnic Identity as Difference

    by MK Raghavendra ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    This book analyzes the representations of the subjects of Hindi cinema as a way of gaining insights into the hegemony of the upper-caste Hindu male in narratives of nationhood.Given that Hindi cinema has narrativized the nation after 1947, the book examines how these subjects were chosen and argues that they were upper-caste, Hindu and predominantly male. The author's analysis shows asymmetries in ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Reading Contemporary India

    An Interdisciplinary Enquiry into Sociocultural Issues

    by MK Raghavendra ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    The book is the first ever attempt to examine various sociocultural aspects of contemporary India, ranging from caste and hierarchy and the religious or political conflict resulting from it to literary practice and intellectual life in the public space and making interdisciplinary associations. It does this by going back to various aspects of India’s past, stretching back several millennia to ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature

    Implicit and Symptomatic Readings

    by MK Raghavendra ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    Indian literature is produced in a wealth of languages but there is an asymmetry in the exposure the writing gets, which owes partly to the politics of translation into English. This book represents the first comprehensive political scrutiny of the concerns and attitudes of Indian language literature after 1947 to cover such a wide range, including voices from the cultural margins of the nation ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Locating World Cinema

    Interpretations of Film as Culture

    by M K Raghavendra ...
    Locating World Cinema argues for the importance of understanding the local context of a film's creation and the nuances that it conveys to the spectator. It examines the sociocultural contexts intrinsic to cinema from milieus like the USSR/Russia, China, Japan, France, the US, Iran and India. The book analyses the works of some of the more celebrated but, at times, less than fully understood ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • The Writing of the Nation by Its Elite

    The Politics of Anglophone Indian Literature in the Global Age

    by MK Raghavendra ...
    Series series Literary Cultures of the Global South
    This volume examines the idea of India as it emerges in the writing of its anglophone elite, post-2000. Drawing on a variety of genres, including fiction, histories, non-fiction assessments – economic, political, and business – travel accounts, and so on, this book maps the explosion of English-language writing in India after the economic liberalization and points to the nation’s sense of its ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • 50 Indian Film Classics

    by M K Raghavendra ...
    An eclectic collection of essays by the winner of the National Award Swarna Kamal for Best Film Critic 1997 With more than a thousand films produced annually in over fifteen languages India is acknowledged as the largest producer of motion pictures in the world.50 Indian Film Classics provides detailed critical accounts of the most important Indian films beginning with Prem Sanyas (1925) to Rang ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Seduced by the Familiar

    Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema

    by M.K. Raghavendra ...
    Hindi popular cinema has played a key role as a national cinema because it assisted in the imagining of a unified India by addressing a public across the nation-to-be even before 1947. Examining the diverse elements that constitute the 'popular' in Indian cinema, M.K. Raghavendra undertakes, in this book, a chronological study of films to speculate on narrative conventions, thematic continuities, ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Bipolar Identity

    Region, Nation, and the Kannada Language Film

    by M.K Raghavendra ...
    The first comprehensive inquiry into the origin and growth of regional language cinema in India, this book traces the development of Kannada cinema from the 1940s to the new millennium. Focusing on the role regional language cinema plays, the book examines the conflict between the 'region' and the 'nation' in the regional consciousness. Raghavendra traces the shape of Kannada cinema to its origins ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Beyond Bollywood

    The Cinemas of South India

    by M K Raghavendra ...
    While 'Indian popular cinema', as if by default, has come to mean Bollywood, there are other cinemas in India which are at least as rewarding to study, the largest and perhaps most intriguing among them coming from South India. Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada cinemas have their own colourful histories, megastars and political trajectories. This anthology is an attempt to do justice to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Director's Cut

    50 Major Film-makers of the Modern Era

    by M K Raghavendra ...
    A critical introduction to the best of international film-makers in the last 50 years.. This is an acutely perceptive collection of essays defining the work of fifty film-makers of the modern era. The shape of cinema is today unrecognizable from that in the 1950s but film criticism has perhaps not kept pace with changes after 1960, when cinema became modern. The collection addresses this deficit ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Satyajit Ray

    Storyteller to Moralist

    by M K Raghavendra ...
    This perceptive essay on Satyajit Ray, India's most well-know film-maker internationally, analysis the auteur's oeuvre, focusing on his early cinema which broke the rules of film-making prevalent in the country at the time. At the same time, it also focuses on how Ray took on a moral stand on issues and how that might have limited his growth as an artist. In the process it reveals the director in ... Read more

    $0.99 USD