The secret politics of our desires: Innocence, culpability and Indian popular cinema - Hardcover

NANDY, A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195639367 ISBN 13: 9780195639360

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS, WITH 6 ESSAYS BY SPECIALISTS ON TAMIL CINEMA, HINDI FILM, TELEVISION, CONCEPT OF REBELLION, RAJ KAPOOR, DILIP KUMAR, THEME OF PRESENTATION OF SELF, POLITICS, POPULAR CULTURE. MIGHT BE USEFUL AS TEXT

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About the Author

Ashis Nandy is an Indian political psychologist, a social theorist, and a contemporary cultural and political critic. A trained sociologist and clinical psychologist, his body of work covers a variety of topics, including public conscience, mass violence, and dialogues of civilizations. He was Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) for several years. Today, he is a Senior Honorary Fellow at the institute and apart from being the Chairperson of the Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, also in New Delhi. Appearing on the list of the 2008 list of the Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll, Nandy had received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2007. In 2008 he was listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals of the world by Foreign Policy magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0195639367
• ISBN 13: 9780195639360
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 259