Bollywood Shakespeares / edited by Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dionne, Craig, editor.

Kapadia, Parmita, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Reproducing Shakespeare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Motion pictures--India--History.

Motion pictures.

Film adaptations.

India.

History.

Film adaptations--India--History and criticism.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

xi, 208 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Bollywood Shakespeares uses the latest theories in postcolonialism, globalization, and post-nationalism to explore how world cinema and theater respond to Bollywood's representation of Shakespeare. The essays examine how Shakespeare has been reproduced and reimagined in a global context through the use of Bollywood imagery, conventions, and styles. This portrayal of Shakespeare is called "crosshatched Shakespeare"-meaning Shakespeare is both part of an elite Western tradition and a window into a new, vibrant post-national identity founded by a global consumer culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Shakespeare and Bollywood: the Difference a World Makes / by Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia

Bollywood's Debt to the Theater: Aesthetic and Cultural Multivalency. Parsi Shakespeare: The Precursor to "Bollywood Shakespeare" / by Vikram Singh Thakur

Bollywood Battles the Bard: The Evolving Relationship Between Film and Theater in Shakespeare Wallah / by Parmita Kapadia

Shakespeare's Local Face: Using Shakespeare to Rearticulate Indian Identities. The Ambiguities of Bollywood Conventions and the Reading of Transnationalism in Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool / by Rosa María García Periago

No Country For Young Women: Empowering Emilia in Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara / by Mike Heidenberg

The Global as Local/Othello as Omkara / Brinda Charry and Gitanjali Shahani

Bollywood's Cultural Capital: Bollywood Sells Shakespeare

Interrogating "Bollywood Shakespeare": Reading Rituporno Ghosh's The Last Lear / by Paromita Chakravarti

The Sounds of India in Supple's Twelfth Night / by Kendra Preston Leonard

Comedies of Errors: Shakespeare, Indian Cinema, and The Poetics of Mistaken Identity / by Richard Allen

Afterword: Bollywood's Shakespeare: Cultural Dialogues through World Cinema and Theater / by Poonam Trevedi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781137386120

1137386126

OCLC:

865452251