Concise Encyclopedia on Hindi Films and Indian Culture (2 Vols-Set)
Contents: Vol. I: Preface. 1. Gandhi and beyond: Hindi Films and cultural dynamics. 2. Classic Hindi Films: translation Indian experiences. 3. The archaeology of Hindi Films and Indian culture. 4. Performing selves of modernity and Hindi Films.
Vol. II: Preface. 5. Authority and Indian tradition in Hindi Films. 6. Love always hurts: Romance and Hindi films. 7. Filming Indian problems: global Indian culture. Conclusion. Select bibliography.
The book in two volumes, Concise Encyclopedia on Hindi Films and Indian Culture, locates Hindi Cinema as the harbinger of Cultural response right from the periphery towards the mainstream, from the local to the national, from the national to the transnational, depicting the transformations offering Cultural symbolic meanings to a wider range of Cultures across the globe. Phenomenology of spectatorship, adds proper reflection of the mainstream audiences, ignoring not the Filmic reception by any sub-culture, sensitive groups, and the distinctiveness in the Indian Cultural phenomenon requires a sensible comprehension of locating meaningful assemblages of live experiences of Culture shot through the Hindi film approaches. Hindi Cinema or the National Cinema relates meaningfully to the diversity of its audience both within and abroad, stressing the need for explaining India satisfactory. Political mobility had already problematized the \'Hindu\' subjectivities, as represented in the Hindi Cinema, since its very inception, covering the cultural spaces of the public visibilities. \'Cinema effect\' has virtually strengthened itself with the inflow of new Transnational electronic medias connecting the mainstream Indian culture, or it\'s constituent, native-Traditional at the local level/periphery, patterning the challenges as the resultant constituents of Globalization. The book in two volumes deal with those Hindi films exploring pertinent discourses offering a Cultural reading of the Cinematic actuality (rather than a contrary readership of \'conflicts\' and \'problematic;\' posed only rigidly and indiscriminately between the workable polarities like the Modern v. Traditional, Hinduism v. Science and so on. Hindi Cinema affirms the elasticity for Advertising in the neo-Technological Age and the Indian Film as a Culture-response remains mobile across Nationalities, where the Audio and Visual gadgetry impart varied sense of images of the New Technology. Flim Education on Hindi Films resolves the Cultural challenges lef-open in the Cinematic engagement, assimilating and transforming the realized basis of Cultural experiences transmitted/shared across various models of understanding Cinema across the World. Super structural reflection of the Economic transformations convey to their best, the Neo-capitalistic pattering of the shared-social life, ordered and systematically transmitted at a post-global scale for those located in Contemporary Indian scenarios. It is to be remembered not to be forgotten about the relationship between the classes as per the Marxist analysis of deep-seated connection between the forms of dominant and the marginalized human agency conveyed through the Cinematic medium. (jacket)
