![]() The author s deep familiarity with world cinema traditions shines forth and illuminates local questions and challenges prevailing theories." - M. "One of the pioneers of film studies in India, in this long-awaited book, locates Indian popular cinema in a world context and offers a thoroughly revised understanding of melodrama as a global aesthetic with a rich Indian history. ![]() He proceeds from a genuinely global perspective, while nonetheless persuasively making the case for regionally specific and local factors in the history of modern popular culture." - Thomas Elsaesser ![]() The Melodramatic Public is not only the most comprehensive book to redirect our understanding of Indian popular cinema, carefully tracing its manifold roots and conducting a painstaking archaeology of the genre, but Vasudevan also redraws the map. ![]() "Here, finally, is the definitive and authoritative study of melodrama we have been hoping for. ![]()
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