Dramatizing Democracy through Cinematic Counterdiscourse: A Comparative Analysis of Govind Nihalani's Aakrosh (1980) and Kundan Shah's Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983).
This paper analyses parallel cinema from the post-Emergency period in India, that dramatizes the politics of discourse and counterdiscourse in the 'democratic' nation, using Louis Althusser's framework of ideology and ideological state apparatuses. Aakrosh (1980) and Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983) mark a...
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Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Theatre & Television
2021
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