246 pages
250mm x 168mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 329 1
ISBN-13: 978 185856 329 9
April 2004
A unique publication, the first of its kind in literature, co-authored by a social scientist and a film historian, providing a powerful critical analysis of the culture and history of the Indian film as an art form and popular medium.
T.V. Sathyamurthy, Professor of Politics at University of York, England, on the first edition of this acclaimed book.
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The book reviews nine decades of Indian popular cinema and examines its immense influence on people in India and its diaspora. Since it was published in 1998, Indian film has developed in new directions. As films today vie with Indian soap operas for popularity, film making in India has acquired industry status and consequently has greater accountability to its public.
All this is reflected in this new and extensively revised edition of Indian Popular Cinema. It tracks the rise of designer cinema, reviews the increasingly significant regional cinema, and considers films made by Indians in the diaspora.
K.Moti Gokulsing is Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East London. He is co-editor of the new journal, South Asian Popular Culture and author of Soft-soaping India: the world of televised Indian soap operas, published by Trentham.
Professor Wimal Dissanayake is Adjunct Fellow at the East-West Centre, Hawaii and founding editor of the East-West Film Journal.
'admirably lucid yet comprehensive...these volumes will serve as very useful introductory guides into the nature of Indian media, its histories and cultural trajectories, for a wide range of users. The volume on television is especially recommended on account of its comprehensive coverage of methodological and analytical issues as well as the care given to narrating the complex history of Indian television over the past decade'.- South Asia Research
'an excellent overview of Indian cinema and television that should be read by all scholars and students interested in global media processes in general or Indian media studies in particular'. - Asian Journal of Communication
