This book challenges the widely held belief that India's mainstream cinema is pure entertainment and entirely fantasy-oriented. Instead, the author shows how conventional cinema voices the concerns of the people and is essentially political, in that it is a major cultural and ideological force that not only reflects reality, but constructs it. INDICE: IntroductionPopular Culture, Mass Culture, Mass Media Defining the TermsUnderstanding Conventional Films In Search of an Analytical FrameworkAnalysing Conventional Films <i>Sholay, Coolie, Hum Aapke Hain KaunThe Concept of Individual and Rebellion in Conventional FilmsTowards a Theory of Popular Cinema
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