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Understanding Indian Movies : Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture SeriesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (308 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780292794160
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Understanding Indian MoviesDDC classification:
  • 791.430954
LOC classification:
  • PN1993
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Indian Movies and the People Who Love Them: Universality and Cultural Particularity in the Cinema -- Chapter One: From Mythical Romances to Historical Sacrifices: Universal Stories in South Asia -- Chapter Two: The Film and the World: Global Themes, Local Movies -- Chapter Three: Once More, with Feeling: Human Emotions and Cultural Imagination -- Chapter Four: "So, What's the Deal with All the Singing?": The Cognitive Universality of the Hindi Musical -- Chapter Five: Seeing Indian Style: The Brain and Its Visual Culture -- Afterword: On Watching Indian Movies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Indian Movies and the People Who Love Them: Universality and Cultural Particularity in the Cinema -- Chapter One: From Mythical Romances to Historical Sacrifices: Universal Stories in South Asia -- Chapter Two: The Film and the World: Global Themes, Local Movies -- Chapter Three: Once More, with Feeling: Human Emotions and Cultural Imagination -- Chapter Four: "So, What's the Deal with All the Singing?": The Cognitive Universality of the Hindi Musical -- Chapter Five: Seeing Indian Style: The Brain and Its Visual Culture -- Afterword: On Watching Indian Movies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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