Understanding Indian Movies : Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination.
Title:
Understanding Indian Movies : Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination.
Author:
Hogan, Patrick Colm.
ISBN:
9780292794160
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (308 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Indian Movies and the People Who Love Them: Universality and Cultural Particularity in the Cinema -- Chapter One: From Mythical Romances to Historical Sacrifices: Universal Stories in South Asia -- Chapter Two: The Film and the World: Global Themes, Local Movies -- Chapter Three: Once More, with Feeling: Human Emotions and Cultural Imagination -- Chapter Four: "So, What's the Deal with All the Singing?": The Cognitive Universality of the Hindi Musical -- Chapter Five: Seeing Indian Style: The Brain and Its Visual Culture -- Afterword: On Watching Indian Movies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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