‘Relationships which have no name’: Family and sexuality in 1970s popular film
@article{Anjaria2012RelationshipsWH, title={‘Relationships which have no name’: Family and sexuality in 1970s popular film}, author={Ulka Anjaria}, journal={South Asian Popular Culture}, year={2012}, volume={10}, pages={23 - 35} }
This essay argues that popular film of the 1970s opened up a space for representing new kinds of social relationships specifically by means of its use of melodramatic formulas. Against a dominant periodization of the decade which emphasizes rupture, I argue that over the course of the long 1970s we see a process of repetition and resignification whereby formulas such as the ‘lost-and-found’ plot and the love triangle were re-presented and their constitutive elements rearranged in order to… CONTINUE READING
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