Bipolar Identity: Region, Nation, and the Kannada Language Film

by M.K. Raghavendra and M.K. Raghavendra

The first comprehensive inquiry into the origin and growth of regional language cinema in India, this volume traces the development of Kannada cinema from the 1940s to the new millennium. Focusing on the role regional language cinema plays in addressing regional identity, the book also articulates the conflict between the Region and the Nation especially at crisis moments.

It explores how its origin in a princely state under indirect British...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198071582
• ISBN13: 9780198071587
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.4"