Mad Tales from Bollywood : Portrayal of Mental Illness in Conventional Hindi Cinema (Hardcover)

Preface. Cinema's Culture. Culture and Mental Illness. Cinema and Emotion. Attitudes Towards Mental Illness. Socio-economic Factors and Cinema in India. History of Hindi Cinema. Indian Personality, Villainy and History. Fifties Fun, Funtoosh and Kishore Kumar. Psychoanalysis in the Films of the 1960s. Arrival of the New Villain. Rootless Eighties and Fundamental Nineties. Why Should Women Remain Behind? New Century: New Villains. Family Fun, Frolics and Madness in Khilona. Electric Shock Treatment in Hindi Cinema. Conclusions.