Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema

339 Pages·2008·3.034 MB·English

by  M.K. Raghavendra

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Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning
in Indian Popular Cinema
M.K. Raghavendra
Print publication date: 2008
Print ISBN-13: 9780195696547
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2012
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195696547.001.0001
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(p.i) Seduced by the Familiar
(p.iii) Seduced by the Familiar
(p.ii)
‘Possible, but not interesting,’ Lonrot answered. ‘You’ll reply that reality
hasn’t the least obligation to be interesting. And I’ll answer you that reality
may avoid that obligation but that hypothesis may not.’
—Jorge Luis Borges, Death and the Compass (1954)
(p.vi)
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Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning
in Indian Popular Cinema
M.K. Raghavendra
Print publication date: 2008
Print ISBN-13: 9780195696547
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2012
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195696547.001.0001
(p.vii) Acknowledgements
This book would not have been possible without the generous grant from The
Homi Bhabha Fellowships Council, Mumbai, for which I am deeply grateful. The
two-year Homi Bhabha Fellowship (2000–01) made it possible for me to conduct
research into the narrative strategies of Indian popular cinema.
I owe much to the late T.G. Vaidyanathan, whose coffee house discussions made
it apparent in my college years that film criticism was an honourable vocation
and to Ashis Nandy, who later persuaded me that studying Indian popular
cinema could be of immense intellectual interest.
I also acknowledge my debt to the various people who helped me in various ways
that are too difficult to enumerate–Usha K.R., Rudolf Bartsch and the Goethe
Institut, Akumal Ramachander, Hans V. Mathews, Rohini and Nandan Nilekani,
K.S. Sashidharan, Vinay Lal, Neepa Majumdar, Jennifer Crewe of Columbia
University Press, New York, the editors of Oxford University Press, New Delhi,
Rahul Gupta, and the late M.U. Jayadev.
This book also owes a debt of gratitude to the comments of the anonymous
readers who scrutinized it more thoroughly than I imagined possible and also
made numerous helpful suggestions, most of which I implemented.
Finally, I also thank the National Film Archive of India and Vijay Jadhav, Arti
Karkhanis, and Subbalakshmi Iyer for their help in providing the images of
publicity posters of Hindi films used on the cover of book.
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Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning
in Indian Popular Cinema
M.K. Raghavendra
Print publication date: 2008
Print ISBN-13: 9780195696547
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2012
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195696547.001.0001
Dedication
(p.v) For my mother, as unlike a popular film mother as any
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