"This volume brings together some of the most distinguished film theorists working in India today to examine the phenomenon of popular Indian cinema from silent films to today's blockbusters. The articles explore the political implications of Indian popular cinema through formal and narrative analysis, archival resources and oral testimony, across a range of key films."
The Melodramatic Public Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema by RaviS. Vasudevan Hardcover, 457 Pages, Published 2011 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-230-24764-2, ISBN: 0-230-24764-4
"What does it mean to say Indian movies are melodramatic? How do film audiences engage with socio-political issues? What role has cinema played in the emergence of new economic forms, consumer cultures, and digital technologies in a globalizing India? The Melodramatic Public analyzes melodrama as a narrative architecture and expressive form which connects the public and the private, the personal and the political, in ways that draw film ..."
The Melodramatic Public Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema by RaviVasudevan 457 Pages, Published 2016 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-230-11812-6, ISBN: 0-230-11812-7
"The abstraction of the couple from the city sets the terms for a narrative involution.
If the mid 1990s Rangeela ... The 'return of the repressed' scenario is suggestive,
as if addressing the perils of the urban form so rapidly re-fashioned in the last
decade, and subjecting it to a narrative probing and a disinterring of buried
histories. Varma's film seems to ... death and a history of violence. Ek Hasina Thi (
Sriram Raghavan, 20 ..."
"Electronics is an inevitable insight for any engineer. Almost all the Engineering disciplines involve either small or big proportion of electronics. So, the basics of Electronics have to be strengthened for all engineering students to shape up their career which will eventually lead to innovation, improvisation in technology, new ideas. Currently, all the engineering students are facing a heavy trauma because of the fact that the basics ..."
The Melodramatic Public Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema by RaviVasudevan Paperback, Published 2015 by Obs ISBN-13: 978-81-7824-455-6, ISBN: 81-7824-455-1
"Melodramatic public, the (pb)"
Media and the Constitution of the Political South Asia and Beyond (Politics and Society in India and the Global South) by RaviVasudevan Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2022 by Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi ISBN-13: 978-93-5479-076-8, ISBN: 93-5479-076-3
"This volume features the writings of leading media scholars from South Asia and Europe on the topic of how media articulates political energies and transformational logics."