{"product_id":"4189-the-secret-politics-of-our-desires","title":"The Secret Politics of Our Desires","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Ashis Nandy\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 1998\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 358\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195639367\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays aims to create a sharper awareness of popular Indian films as a possible source for an alternative, non-formal frame of political and social analysis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe emphasis is not on film theory or the aesthetics of popular cinema, but on the larger politics of culture as it is epitomized in popular films.  It self-consciously disengages itself from conventional film theory and regular models of cultural studies to rethink cinema as a form of shared tacit  political knowledge. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Ashish Nandy, the metaphor for Indian popular cinema is the urban slum; he argues that popular cinema is the slum's point of view of Indian politics and society.  Ziauddin Sardar's and Rajni Bakshi's essays are highly personalized narratives that they to capture the crises of Indian public life as reflected in the generational and stylistic changes in popular cinema.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe other essays focus on what films say about the means available for ordinary citizens to intervene in Indian politics and urban life: the way the receiver of audio-visual messages creatively reshapes them for his or her own purposes the distinctive relationship of Tamil films with politics; and the absence in Indian cinema  of any genuine outsider, either in the form of an alienated hero or a villain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is essential reading for social scientists and all those interested in the series study of films.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eASHIS NANDY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eIndian Popular Cinema as a Slum's Eye View of politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZIAUDDIN SARDAR\u003cbr\u003eDilip Kumar made me do it\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRAJNI BAKSHI\u003cbr\u003eRaj Kapoor:\u003cbr\u003eFrom Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai to Ram Teri Ganga Maili\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFAREEDUDDIN KAZMI\u003cbr\u003eHow angry is the Angry Young Man?\u003cbr\u003eRebellion in Conventional Hindi Films\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANJALI MONTEIRO\u003cbr\u003eOfficial Television and unofficial fabrications of the self: The Spectator as Subject\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eK RAVI SRINIVAS AND SUNDAR KAALI\u003cbr\u003eOn Castes and Comedians: The language of power in recent Tamil Cinema\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVINAY LAL\u003cbr\u003eThe impossibility of the outsider in the modern Hindi film\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Ashis Nandy \/ Oxford University Press \/ Hardcover","offer_id":40776662319273,"sku":"4189","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/5487_c7bccd89-c610-4167-93c1-4899bbc23690.jpg?v=1625571408","url":"https:\/\/indiaclub.com\/de\/products\/4189-the-secret-politics-of-our-desires","provider":"The India Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}