Cinema India: The Visual Culture of Hindi Film

by Rachel Dwyer

Book Overview

As the largest producer of films in the world, Indian cinema is both a major industry and a distinctive art form that permeates daily life in that country and shapes emerging global cultures elsewhere. While much has been written on the history of Indian cinema, its iconography and aesthetics have yet to be analyzed as reflections of national and cultural identities. In this important new work, Rachel Dwyer and Divia Patel focus on the development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813531756
• ISBN13: 9780813531755
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"