The Melodramatic Public

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Melodramatic Public

Chapter 3 Introduction

Chapter 4 Shifting Codes, Dissolving Identities: Realist Art Cinema Criticism and Popular Film Form

Chapter 5 The Cultural Politics of Address in a ‘Transitional’ Cinema

Chapter 6 Neither State Nor Faith: Mediating Sectarian Conflict in Popular Cinema

Chapter 7 A Modernist Public: The Double-Take of Modernism in the Work of Satyajit Ray

Chapter 8 Introduction

Chapter 9 Voice, Space, Form: The Symbolic and Territorial Itinerary of Mani Rathnam’s Roja (1992)

Chapter 10 Bombay (Mani Rathnam, 1995) and Its Publics

Chapter 11 Another History Rises to the Surface: Melodrama in the Age of Digital Simulation: Hey Ram! (Kamalahasan, 1999)

Chapter 12 Introduction

Chapter 13 Selves Made Strange: Violent and Performative Bodies in the Cities of Indian Cinema 1974–2003

Chapter 14 The Contemporary Film Industry—I: The Meanings of ‘Bollywood’

Chapter 16 Conclusion and Afterword