Registers of action: melodrama and film genre in 1930s India

Discusses female roles and the genres they inhabit in 1930s Indian cinema. Contrasts female action films with 'social' films emphasising female suffering, and interrogates the opposition between active/passive and action/melodrama. Includes discussion of two films directed by V. Shantaram...
Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Autor*in:

Vasudevan, Ravi S [verfasserIn]

Format:

Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2017

Schlagwörter:

INDIA/1930's

KUNKU

GENRES, FILM/INDIA

SHANTARAM, VADRANUKE

WOMEN IN FILMS/INDIA

MANOOS

Übergeordnetes Werk:

Enthalten in: Screen - Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 1969, LVIII(2017), 1, Seite 64

Übergeordnetes Werk:

volume:LVIII ; year:2017 ; number:1 ; pages:64

Katalog-ID:

OLC1996070487

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