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Title Pages Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema M.K. Raghavendra Print publication date: 2008 Print ISBN-13: 9780195696547 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2012 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195696547.001.0001 Title Pages (p.i) Seduced by the Familiar (p.iii) Seduced by the Familiar (p.ii) ‘Possible, but not interesting,’ Lonrot answered. ‘You’ll reply that reality hasn’t the least obligation to be interesting. And I’ll answer you that reality may avoid that obligation but that hypothesis may not.’ —Jorge Luis Borges, Death and the Compass (1954) (p.vi) YMCA Library Building, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi 110 001 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. 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Subscriber: New York Public Library; date: 10 July 2021 Acknowledgements Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema M.K. Raghavendra Print publication date: 2008 Print ISBN-13: 9780195696547 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2012 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195696547.001.0001 (p.vii) Acknowledgements This book would not have been possible without the generous grant from The Homi Bhabha Fellowships Council, Mumbai, for which I am deeply grateful. The two-year Homi Bhabha Fellowship (2000–01) made it possible for me to conduct research into the narrative strategies of Indian popular cinema. I owe much to the late T.G. Vaidyanathan, whose coffee house discussions made it apparent in my college years that film criticism was an honourable vocation and to Ashis Nandy, who later persuaded me that studying Indian popular cinema could be of immense intellectual interest. I also acknowledge my debt to the various people who helped me in various ways that are too difficult to enumerate–Usha K.R., Rudolf Bartsch and the Goethe Institut, Akumal Ramachander, Hans V. Mathews, Rohini and Nandan Nilekani, K.S. Sashidharan, Vinay Lal, Neepa Majumdar, Jennifer Crewe of Columbia University Press, New York, the editors of Oxford University Press, New Delhi, Rahul Gupta, and the late M.U. Jayadev. This book also owes a debt of gratitude to the comments of the anonymous readers who scrutinized it more thoroughly than I imagined possible and also made numerous helpful suggestions, most of which I implemented. Finally, I also thank the National Film Archive of India and Vijay Jadhav, Arti Karkhanis, and Subbalakshmi Iyer for their help in providing the images of publicity posters of Hindi films used on the cover of book. Page 1 of 4 PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (oxford.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2021. 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(c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2021. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in OSO for personal use. Subscriber: New York Public Library; date: 10 July 2021 Dedication Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema M.K. Raghavendra Print publication date: 2008 Print ISBN-13: 9780195696547 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2012 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195696547.001.0001 Dedication (p.v) For my mother, as unlike a popular film mother as any Page 1 of 4 PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (oxford.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2021. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in OSO for personal use. Subscriber: New York Public Library; date: 10 July 2021 Dedication (p.vi) Page 2 of 4 PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (oxford.universitypressscholarship.com). 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