Bollywood cinema : temples of desire

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mishra, Vijay, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Mumbai--India.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Routledge 2002

Language Note:

English

Summary:

India is home to Bollywood - the largest film industry in the world. Movie theaters are said to be the "temples of modern India," with Bombay producing nearly 800 films per year that are viewed by roughly 11 million people per day. In Bollywood Cinema, Vijay Mishra argues that Indian film production and reception is shaped by the desire for national community and a pan-Indian popular culture. Seeking to understand Bollywood according to its own narrative and aesthetic principles and in relation to a global film industry, he views Indian cinema through the dual methodologies of postcolonial studies and film theory. Mishra discusses classics such as Mother India (1957) and Devdas (1935) and recent films including Ram Lakhan (1989) and Khalnayak (1993), linking their form and content to broader issues of national identity, epic tradition, popular culture, history, and the implications of diaspora.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

A Note on Transliteration

Chapter one INVENTING BOMBAY CINEMA

Chapter two MELODRAMATIC STAGING

Chapter Three THE TEXTS OF "MOTHER INDIA

Chapter Four AUTEURSHIP AND THE LURE OF ROMANCE

Chapter Five THE ACTOR AS PARALLEL TEXT: AMITABH BACHCHAN

Chapter Six SEGMENTING/ANALYZING TWO FOUNDATIONAL TEXTS

Charter Seven AFTER AYODHYA: THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF FUNDAMENTALISM

Chapter Eight BOMBAY CINEMA AND DIASPORIC DESIRE

Filmography

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-135-31099-8

1-135-31092-0

0-203-95139-5

9780203951392

OCLC:

854585609