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  • Without Empathy

    Irony and the Satirical Impulse in Eight Major Filmmakers

    by MK Raghavendra ...
    Irony and the satirical impulse in cinema have gradually lost favor, mockery increasingly more selective in its choice of targets. As Linda Hutcheon notes, irony is becoming a problematic mode of expression in the twenty-first century.The book examines the work of eight film auteurs: Luis Bunuel, R.W. Fassbinder, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Paul Verhoeven, Aki Kaurismaki, Aleksei Balabanov and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Reading Contemporary India

    An Interdisciplinary Enquiry into Sociocultural Issues

    by MK Raghavendra ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    The book is the first ever attempt to examine various sociocultural aspects of contemporary India, ranging from caste and hierarchy and the religious or political conflict resulting from it to literary practice and intellectual life in the public space and making interdisciplinary associations. It does this by going back to various aspects of India’s past, stretching back several millennia to ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Bipolar Identity

    Region, Nation, and the Kannada Language Film

    by M.K Raghavendra ...
    The first comprehensive inquiry into the origin and growth of regional language cinema in India, this book traces the development of Kannada cinema from the 1940s to the new millennium. Focusing on the role regional language cinema plays, the book examines the conflict between the 'region' and the 'nation' in the regional consciousness. Raghavendra traces the shape of Kannada cinema to its origins ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Subject of the Nation and his 'Others' in Hindi Cinema

    Gender, Religious, Caste, and Ethnic Identity as Difference

    by MK Raghavendra ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    This book analyzes the representations of the subjects of Hindi cinema as a way of gaining insights into the hegemony of the upper-caste Hindu male in narratives of nationhood.Given that Hindi cinema has narrativized the nation after 1947, the book examines how these subjects were chosen and argues that they were upper-caste, Hindu and predominantly male. The author's analysis shows asymmetries in ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Philosophical Issues in Indian Cinema

    Approximate Terms and Concepts

    by MK Raghavendra ...
    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 ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature

    Implicit and Symptomatic Readings

    by MK Raghavendra ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    Indian literature is produced in a wealth of languages but there is an asymmetry in the exposure the writing gets, which owes partly to the politics of translation into English. This book represents the first comprehensive political scrutiny of the concerns and attitudes of Indian language literature after 1947 to cover such a wide range, including voices from the cultural margins of the nation ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • AI for Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics

    Edited by Suresh Chavhan, Deepak Gupta, Sesha Sai Sravanthi Valiveti, Sai Raghavendra Varanasi, Sarada Prasad Gochhayat ...
    Series series Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Engineering and Management
    This book provides a detailed cutting-edge technique of Artificial intelligence (AI) that transforms the forensic and security landscape. It is organised into five parts: basic foundational principles, AI techniques for cybersecurity, AI in digital forensic, realworld cybercrime applications; and challenges, ethics, and future directions.AI for Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics presents a ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Psychiatry and Technology

    Edited by Raghavendra M. Devadas, Vani Hiremani, P. Preethi, Praveen Gujjar, Sapna R., Manoj Shettar ...
    Modernize your psychiatric practice with this comprehensive guide, which explores the transformative power of AI-powered therapy, virtual reality exposure therapy, and digital health technologies to create more accessible, personalized, and effective mental health interventions.Historically, psychiatry has relied on traditional face-to-face interactions, manual assessments, and pharmacological ... Read more

    $180.00 USD

  • The Writing of the Nation by Its Elite

    The Politics of Anglophone Indian Literature in the Global Age

    by MK Raghavendra ...
    Series series Literary Cultures of the Global South
    This volume examines the idea of India as it emerges in the writing of its anglophone elite, post-2000. Drawing on a variety of genres, including fiction, histories, non-fiction assessments – economic, political, and business – travel accounts, and so on, this book maps the explosion of English-language writing in India after the economic liberalization and points to the nation’s sense of its ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Director's Cut

    50 Major Film-makers of the Modern Era

    by M K Raghavendra ...
    A critical introduction to the best of international film-makers in the last 50 years.. This is an acutely perceptive collection of essays defining the work of fifty film-makers of the modern era. The shape of cinema is today unrecognizable from that in the 1950s but film criticism has perhaps not kept pace with changes after 1960, when cinema became modern. The collection addresses this deficit ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Beyond Bollywood

    The Cinemas of South India

    by M K Raghavendra ...
    While 'Indian popular cinema', as if by default, has come to mean Bollywood, there are other cinemas in India which are at least as rewarding to study, the largest and perhaps most intriguing among them coming from South India. Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada cinemas have their own colourful histories, megastars and political trajectories. This anthology is an attempt to do justice to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Seduced by the Familiar

    Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema

    by M.K. Raghavendra ...
    Hindi popular cinema has played a key role as a national cinema because it assisted in the imagining of a unified India by addressing a public across the nation-to-be even before 1947. Examining the diverse elements that constitute the 'popular' in Indian cinema, M.K. Raghavendra undertakes, in this book, a chronological study of films to speculate on narrative conventions, thematic continuities, ... Read more

    $27.59 USD