CRITICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES ON INDIAN CINEMA

Edited by : Anagha Kamble, Anirudh Deshpande

Aakar Books 2023

Language: English

283 Pages

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About the Book

What is cinema and how do social scientists view it critically? Why is cinema important to our understanding of modern society? What does cinema mean to a film crazy society like India? What is the past, present, and possible future of Indian cinema? How has Indian cinema shaped Indian mentalities and how has it been influenced by ideologies present in Indian society? This edited collection of sixteen essays by distinguished scholars answers these questions. The book is aimed at cinema scholars and anyone who is interested in looking at cinema as a serious social expression in a changing world. Anirudh Deshpande is Professor, Deparment of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi. Anagha Kamble is Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Mumbai, Mumbai.

Anirudh Deshpande
Anirudh Deshpande is Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi, Delhi. He is co-editor, along with Partha Sarathi Gupta, of The British Raj and its Indian Armed Forces, 1857-1939 (2002), and author of British Military Policy in India 1900-1945: Colonial Constraints and Declining Power (2005), Class, Power and Consciousness in Indian Cinema and Television (2009), A Spring of Despair: Mutiny, Rebellion and Death in India, 1946 and Cinema Aur Itihaas – Kuch Paraspar Sambandh (both forthcoming).

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