Philosophical Issues in Indian Cinema: Approximate Terms and Concepts

This book interrogates the vocabulary used in theorizing about Indian cinema to reach into the deeper cultural meanings of philosophies and traditions from which it derives its influences. It re-examines terms and concepts used in film criticism and contextualizes them within the aesthetics, poetics and politics of Indian cinema.

The book looks at terms and concepts borrowed from the scholarship on American and world cinema and explores their use and relevance in describing the characterist...