Ravi Vasudevan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ravi Vasudevan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ravi |
| FAMILY NAME | Vasudevan |
| SIGNATURE | VASUDEVAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cinema Haunts
Anatomy, Archaeology, Archive: Media Historiography and Its Forms
Phantasmatic Remediations Between Archives and Platforms
Idols and Ideologies
Cinema in the Age of Social Media
Imaginations and Infrastructures of Visibility
Melodrama
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A British Documentary Film-Maker's Encounter With Empire: The Case Of Alexander Shaw, 1938-42
This article explores the work of British documentary film-maker and film expert, Alexander Shaw, undertaken in the colonies and dependent territories of empire. It draws on films Shaw made in Malaya, East Africa and India between 1938 and 1942, analysing elements of film technique, narration and production context. It suggests that the official film of empire could vary on the basis of the political context and film industrial setting it encount…
Registers of action: Melodrama and film genre in 1930s India
Is there some comparative and connected way of thinking through film genre, both in the local contexts of production and more regionally and globally? In the early period of Indian cinema there were key patterns of film circulation and, alongside the iconic ‘national’ genre of the mythological, it would appear that the action serial/stunt movie and adventure/fantasy film remained a staple attraction.1 While genre elaboration took place in the 192…
Father India and the emergence of the global nation
This article contributes to one of Patricia Uberoi's research interests, how family films address identity conflicts in globalising India. It seeks to highlight the symbolic changes in narrative structure brought about by the shifting focus from mother to father as arbiter of national belonging in recent 'family socials'. Particular attention is paid to the narrative and performative strategies involved in converting the father and images of the …
Shifting codes, dissolving identities: The Hindi social film of the 1950s as popular culture
You Cannot Live in Society-and Ignore It: Nationhood and Female Modernity in Andaz
L'A. s'efforce de montrer en quoi le film Andaz realise en 1949 permet de saisir le contexte politique et social de l'Inde des annees 1940. Il examine de quelle maniere l'espace narratif met en scene l'autorite masculine. Il souligne l'ambiguite du discours de ce film en ce domaine. Il estime que son caractere comique offre un regard reflexif, moderne sur l'organisation patriarcale. Il etudie le lien entre nationalisme, modernisation et modernite…
Dislocations: The Cinematic Imagining of a New Society in 1950s India
Analyse de la maniere dont le cinema indien des annees 1950 raconte l'image d'une nouvelle nation, et dont le deracinement social et familial des personnages est mis en scene. Les notions de place et d'espace sont abordees en distinguant la localite de la region et en expliquant les connotations d'une nationalite indienne. L'A. s'interesse aussi a l'absorbtion des points de reference du Bengal et du Punjab dans l'identite indienne repandue par Bo…
The cultural space of a film narrative: Interpreting Kismet (Bombay Talkies, 1943)
The Melodramatic Mode and the Commercial Hindi Cinema: Notes on Film History, Narrative and Performance in the 1950s
Journal Article The Melodramatic Mode and the Commercial Hindi Cinema: Notes on Film History, Narrative and Performance in the 1950s Get access Ravi Vasudevan Ravi Vasudevan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 30, Issue 3, Summer 1989, Pages 29–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/30.3.29 Published: 01 July 1989
Why the Congress Accepted Office in 1937
The Melodramatic Mode and the Commercial Hindi Cinema: Notes on Film History, Narrative and Performance in the 1950s
Journal Article The Melodramatic Mode and the Commercial Hindi Cinema: Notes on Film History, Narrative and Performance in the 1950s Get access Ravi Vasudevan Ravi Vasudevan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 30, Issue 3, Summer 1989, Pages 29–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/30.3.29 Published: 01 July 1989
You Cannot Live in Society-and Ignore It: Nationhood and Female Modernity in Andaz
L'A. s'efforce de montrer en quoi le film Andaz realise en 1949 permet de saisir le contexte politique et social de l'Inde des annees 1940. Il examine de quelle maniere l'espace narratif met en scene l'autorite masculine. Il souligne l'ambiguite du discours de ce film en ce domaine. Il estime que son caractere comique offre un regard reflexif, moderne sur l'organisation patriarcale. Il etudie le lien entre nationalisme, modernisation et modernite…
The cultural space of a film narrative: Interpreting Kismet (Bombay Talkies, 1943)
Shifting codes, dissolving identities: The Hindi social film of the 1950s as popular culture
Dislocations: The Cinematic Imagining of a New Society in 1950s India
Analyse de la maniere dont le cinema indien des annees 1950 raconte l'image d'une nouvelle nation, et dont le deracinement social et familial des personnages est mis en scene. Les notions de place et d'espace sont abordees en distinguant la localite de la region et en expliquant les connotations d'une nationalite indienne. L'A. s'interesse aussi a l'absorbtion des points de reference du Bengal et du Punjab dans l'identite indienne repandue par Bo…
A British Documentary Film-Maker's Encounter With Empire: The Case Of Alexander Shaw, 1938-42
This article explores the work of British documentary film-maker and film expert, Alexander Shaw, undertaken in the colonies and dependent territories of empire. It draws on films Shaw made in Malaya, East Africa and India between 1938 and 1942, analysing elements of film technique, narration and production context. It suggests that the official film of empire could vary on the basis of the political context and film industrial setting it encount…
Why the Congress Accepted Office in 1937
The Melodramatic Mode and the Commercial Hindi Cinema: Notes on Film History, Narrative and Performance in the 1950s
Journal Article The Melodramatic Mode and the Commercial Hindi Cinema: Notes on Film History, Narrative and Performance in the 1950s Get access Ravi Vasudevan Ravi Vasudevan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 30, Issue 3, Summer 1989, Pages 29–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/30.3.29 Published: 01 July 1989
The cultural space of a film narrative: Interpreting Kismet (Bombay Talkies, 1943)
Dislocations: The Cinematic Imagining of a New Society in 1950s India
Analyse de la maniere dont le cinema indien des annees 1950 raconte l'image d'une nouvelle nation, et dont le deracinement social et familial des personnages est mis en scene. Les notions de place et d'espace sont abordees en distinguant la localite de la region et en expliquant les connotations d'une nationalite indienne. L'A. s'interesse aussi a l'absorbtion des points de reference du Bengal et du Punjab dans l'identite indienne repandue par Bo…
You Cannot Live in Society-and Ignore It: Nationhood and Female Modernity in Andaz
L'A. s'efforce de montrer en quoi le film Andaz realise en 1949 permet de saisir le contexte politique et social de l'Inde des annees 1940. Il examine de quelle maniere l'espace narratif met en scene l'autorite masculine. Il souligne l'ambiguite du discours de ce film en ce domaine. Il estime que son caractere comique offre un regard reflexif, moderne sur l'organisation patriarcale. Il etudie le lien entre nationalisme, modernisation et modernite…
Shifting codes, dissolving identities: The Hindi social film of the 1950s as popular culture
Father India and the emergence of the global nation
This article contributes to one of Patricia Uberoi's research interests, how family films address identity conflicts in globalising India. It seeks to highlight the symbolic changes in narrative structure brought about by the shifting focus from mother to father as arbiter of national belonging in recent 'family socials'. Particular attention is paid to the narrative and performative strategies involved in converting the father and images of the …
Registers of action: Melodrama and film genre in 1930s India
Is there some comparative and connected way of thinking through film genre, both in the local contexts of production and more regionally and globally? In the early period of Indian cinema there were key patterns of film circulation and, alongside the iconic ‘national’ genre of the mythological, it would appear that the action serial/stunt movie and adventure/fantasy film remained a staple attraction.1 While genre elaboration took place in the 192…
A British Documentary Film-Maker's Encounter With Empire: The Case Of Alexander Shaw, 1938-42
This article explores the work of British documentary film-maker and film expert, Alexander Shaw, undertaken in the colonies and dependent territories of empire. It draws on films Shaw made in Malaya, East Africa and India between 1938 and 1942, analysing elements of film technique, narration and production context. It suggests that the official film of empire could vary on the basis of the political context and film industrial setting it encount…
Share Your Screen
Melodrama
Imaginations and Infrastructures of Visibility
Idols and Ideologies
Cinema in the Age of Social Media
Phantasmatic Remediations Between Archives and Platforms
Cinema Haunts
Anatomy, Archaeology, Archive: Media Historiography and Its Forms
Art (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Political science (5 works)