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The Secret Politics of Our Desires: Innocence, Culpability and Indian Popular Cinema Soft cover - 1998

by edited by Ashis Nandy

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India: Manzar Khan, Oxford University Press, Zed Books Limited, 1998. First Thus . Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Minor handling wear on the front, creases on back cover, firmly bound with small inscription insdie.
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  • Title The Secret Politics of Our Desires: Innocence, Culpability and Indian Popular Cinema
  • Author edited by Ashis Nandy
  • Binding Soft cover
  • Edition First Thus
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 259
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Manzar Khan, Oxford University Press, Zed Books Limited, India
  • Date 1998
  • Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 073882
  • ISBN 9781856495165 / 1856495167
  • Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.43 x 5.49 x 0.6 in (21.41 x 13.94 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Indian
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97024677
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791

From the publisher

This book deals with an important and too-often ignored area of cultural studies. To examine the enormous industry of Indian popular cinema is to study Indian modernity at its very rawest. The questions and perspectives this book presents provoke a thinking of cinema that is political in the widest sense - from cinemas importance in ideas of nation and national cultural formation to psycho-social perspectives on identity, class and gender. The contributors deal with a range of themes from the metaphor of the slum as a defining cultural phenomenon to personal reflections on the political meanings and strategies of South Asian film, from Tamil blockbusters to the intrinsic ineffectivity of TV as a propagator of state ideology. Whilst the book is essential reading for students and academics of film, media and of South Asian studies. It will also fascinate anyone with an interest in the genuinely global phenomenon of South Asian cinema.

About the author

Ashis Nandy is an Indian political psychologist, a social theorist, and a contemporary cultural and political critic. A trained sociologist and clinical psychologist, his body of work covers a variety of topics, including public conscience, mass violence, and dialogues of civilizations.

He was Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) for several years. Today, he is a Senior Honorary Fellow at the institute and apart from being the Chairperson of the Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, also in New Delhi.

Appearing on the list of the 2008 list of the Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll, Nandy had received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2007. In 2008 he was listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals of the world by Foreign Policy magazine.
Ashis Nandy is an Indian political psychologist, a social theorist, and a contemporary cultural and political critic. A trained sociologist and clinical psychologist, his body of work covers a variety of topics, including public conscience, mass violence, and dialogues of civilizations.

He was Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) for several years. Today, he is a Senior Honorary Fellow at the institute and apart from being the Chairperson of the Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, also in New Delhi.

Appearing on the list of the 2008 list of the Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll, Nandy had received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2007. In 2008 he was listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals of the world by Foreign Policy magazine.

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