Invisible Representation: The Oral Contours of a National Popular Cinema

Sheila J. Nayar

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Invisible Representation: The Oral Contours of a National Popular Cinema

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2004 English Publisher:University of California PressJournal:Film Quarterly, volume 57, pages 13-23 (issn: 0015-1386, eissn: 1533-8630,

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Authors: Sheila J. Nayar;

doi: 10.1525/fq.2004.57.3.13

Invisible Representation: The Oral Contours of a National Popular Cinema

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Abstract This paper posits that the formula for India's popular cinema (a.k.a. “Bollywood”—the Hollywood of Bombay) has been fundamentally contoured by the psychodynamics of orality, i.e., by the thought processes and personality structures that distinguish a non-writerly mindset and its narrative creations. Analyses of several Bollywood hits from the past halfcentury illustrate how.

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