The cinematic imagiNation [sic]: Indian popular films as social history

Nation and its discontents. The nation, in theory ; The creative ImagiNation ; Theorizing national cinema ; Nation and its embodiments ; Pleasure and terror of the feminine.

The idealized woman. Fixing the figure of the woman ; Woman, community, nation ; The "social butterfly."

Heroes and villains: narrating the nation. Masculinity ; Heroes and villains ; Sons and mothers.

Heroines, romance, and social history. Reading resistance ; Contesting the Laxman Rekha ; Film/star text: reading social change.

The sexed body. Filmic love ; Victims to vigilantes ; Rape and the rape threat ; The sexed body and specular pleasure ; Double-speak about the body ; Unsettled scores.

Re-reading romance. Transgressions of "true love" ; Reinstating "family values" ; Romantic love and the culture of consumption ; The end of the Nehruvian Era.