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- Title
CHAPTER 2: History and Cinema.
- Authors
Choksi, Vidushi B.
- Abstract
Cinema has always played a momentous role in giving voice to the existential concerns and dilemmas of common people, tried and perplexed in our tragi-comic postmodern world. Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful medium for educating -- or indoctrinating -- citizens. The visual elements of cinema give motion pictures a universal power of communication. Classic cinema has invariably proved its worth by exercising a formative influence on the psyche of cine-goers. It has effectively tried to mobilize the sensitivity and sensibility of cine-goers. Classic cinema, like classic literature, incorporates a polyphonic narrative, that is to say, it projects reality from a multi-dimensional perspective. It does not merely invite us to enter a realm of enchantment and entertainment but also bring us face-to-face with the gruesome realities of ever-changing life. However, the commitment of cinema becomes doubly strengthened when it comes to projecting some of the most disturbing and controversial historical events. Such potentially dangerous historical events have unleashed a destructive tsunami of communalism, hooliganism, jingoism, violence, war, inhuman atrocities etc. Cinema, thus, plays a pivotal role in representing such unprecedented historical events authentically and objectively.
- Subjects
MOTION pictures; MOTION picture industry; MOTION pictures &; history; CULTURE; CULTURAL industries; REALITY
- Publication
Language in India, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 11, p37
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article