‘Relationships which have no name’: Family and sexuality in 1970s popular film

Ulka Anjaria

DOI:10.1080/14746689.2012.655103

Corpus ID: 145145328

‘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}
}

Ulka Anjaria

Published 2012

Sociology

South Asian Popular Culture

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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