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Bollyworld [electronic resource] : popular Indian cinema through a transnational lens / editors, Raminder Kaur, Ajay J. Sinha.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--India.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--India--Foreign influences.
- Motion pictures, Indic.
- India--In motion pictures.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Popular Indian Cinema is clearly a worldwide phenomenon. But what often gets overlooked in this celebration is this cinema's intricate relationship with global dynamics since its very inception in the 1890s. With contributions from a range of international scholars, this volume analyses the transnational networks of India's popular cinema in terms of its production, narratives and reception. The first section of the book,Topographies, concentrates on the globalised audio-visual economies within which the technologies and aesthetics of India's commercial cinema developed. Essays here focus on t
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of llustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 - Bollyworld: An Introduction to Popular Indian Cinema through a Transnational Lens; Part I: Topographies; 2 - Not Quite (Pearl) White: Fearless Nadia, Queen of the Stunts; 3 - Figures of Locality and Tradition: Commercial Cinema and the Networks of Visual Print Capitalism in Maharashtra; 4 - Icons and Events: Reinventing Visual Construction in Cinema in India; 5 - Reflected Readings in Available Light: Cameramen in the Shadows of Hindi Cinema; Part II: Trans-Actions
- 6 - Sexuality, Sensuality and Belonging: Representations of the 'Anglo-Indian' and the 'Western' Woman in Hindi Cinema7 - 'Fight Club': Aesthetics, Hybridisation and the Construction of Rogue Masculinities in Sholay and Deewaar; 8 - The Consumable Hero of Globalised India; Part III: Travels; 9 - The Scattered Homelands of the Migrant: Bollyworld through the Diasporic Lens; 10 - In Search of the Diasporic Self: Bollywood in South Africa; 11 - Belonging and Respect Notions vis- -vis Modern East Indians: Hindi Movies in the Guyanese East Indian Diaspora
- 12 - Bandiri Music, Globalisation and Urban Experience in Nigeria13 - Cruising on the Vilayeti Bandwagon: Diasporic Representations and Reception of Popular Indian Movies; About the Editors and Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-42484-X
- 9786612424847
- 81-321-0344-0
- OCLC:
- 551204435
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