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Performance and culture : narrative, image and enactment in India / by Archana Verma.

Van Pelt Library PN2881 .V47 2011
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Language:
English
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Physical Description:
154 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
Contents:
  • 1. Visual Language of the Divine Dance
  • Text and Image of Shiva's Dance Sculptures in Indian Temples
  • 2. Satirizing the Ideal
  • Chaturbhani (A Collection of Four Sanskrit Burlesque Plays from Ancient India)
  • 3. Eroticism in Indian Classical Dance
  • Odissi
  • 4. Satirizing the Sacred Narrative
  • Dance-Drama from Kerala
  • 5. Performance in the Folk Expressions of the Women of Mithila
  • 6. Imageries of Power
  • An Exegesis of Folk Performance Narratives
  • 7. Cinematic Narration, Women Dancers and Cultural Memory of Ancient India
  • Two Hindi Films Chitralekha (1964) and Amrapali (1966).
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-143) and index.
ISBN:
  • 9781443827355
  • 1443827355
OCLC:
697774496

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