[Reader-list] Realism and Cinema

[Neepa Majumdar]

The Journal of Arts and Ideas is online now at

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/artsandideas/

It is still in publication.

Best,
Neepa



On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Rashmi Sawhney wrote:

> Dear Manosh and Subhajit
> > I managed to access my mail after a few days gap, and was very pleased
> > to see your responses. Both very thought provking at that. I'm
> > familiar with the essays in 'making Meaning...', JOAI, and Deep Focus.
> > In addition to these I've found Madhava Prasada's 'Ideology of the
> > Hindi Film' to be quite stimulating as well. I haven't found Cinemaya
> > very useful, barring the occassional article. In any case its too
> > expensive for a astudent like myself to dish out the 'international'
> > subscription rates. I'd like to know if the JOAI is still being
> > published. Will certainly look up the Journal of the Moving Image. Can
> > it be subscribed somewhere/ accessed online?
> Yes, I agree with the point you both made about the realism/melodrama
> distinction being blurred or needing to be differently understood in
> relation to the specific constellation of forces that have shaped
> popular Indian cinema.
> Manoush, I'm not quite sure that i'd view Dev within the framework of
> patriotism/terrorism, rather than fundamentalism/secularism...I think
> Nihalani had a fairly clear plan of persuassion to execute through the
> film. Of course, the dominant ideology confirms with nehru's vision of
> secular and economic progress. Therefore, I might not quite agree with
> your idea (If I've understood it correctly) that the film follows a
> line of other 'nationalist' films, perhaps like Border, Lakshya etc?
>
> best,
>
> Rashmi
> >
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