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  • Salaam Bollywood

    Representations and interpretations

    Edición de Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal, Parichay Patra ...
    This book traces the journey of popular Hindi cinema from 1913 to contemporary times when Bollywood has evolved as a part of India’s cultural diplomacy. Avoiding a linear, developmental narrative, the book re-examines the developments through the ruptures in the course of cinematic history. The essays in the volume critically consider transformations of the Hindi film industry from its early days ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

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  • Tamil Cinema

    The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry

    Edición de Selvaraj Velayutham ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output. This book examines critically the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. It outlines its history and distinctive characteristics, and proceeds to consider a number of important ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Bollywood

    A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema

    de Tejaswini Ganti ...
    Series series Routledge Film Guidebooks
    'Bollywood' is the dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995). Characterised by music, dance routines, melodrama, lavish production values and an emphasis on stars and spectacle, Bollywood films have met with box-office success and enthusiastic audiences from India to West Africa to Russia, and throughout the English-speaking world ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Indian Cinema

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Ashish Rajadhyaksha ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    One film out of every five made anywhere on earth comes from India. From its beginnings under colonial rule through to the heights of Bollywood , Indian Cinema has challenged social injustices such as caste, the oppression of Indian women, religious intolerance, rural poverty, and the pressures of life in the burgeoning cities. And yet, the Indian movie industry makes only about five percent of ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Fire

    A Queer Film Classic

    de Shohini Ghosh ...
    Series series Queer Film Classics
    Shohini Ghosh: Shohini Ghosh is Professor at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, a university in New Delhi. Tales of the Night Fairies, her documentary on the sex workers rights movement, made a strong intervention in debates on sex work. She writes on contemporary media practices and sexuality. ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Bollywood

    Gods, Glamour, and Gossip

    de Kush Varia ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    While we have become familiar with the idea of "Bollywood" here in the West, we know little about the industry's films beyond a certain celebration of kitsch. Bollywood, the latest in Wallflower Press's Short Cuts introductory series, surveys this style of filmmaking from its origins in colonial times to the present, tracing its impact on both the Indian and global imagination. Chapters explore ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987

    de Sumita S. Chakravarty ...
    Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
    Although Indian popular cinema has a long history and is familiar to audiences around the world, it has rarely been systematically studied. This book offers the first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood. The study focuses on the cinema’s characteristic forms, its range of meanings and pleasures, and, above all, its ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Hindi Cinema

    Repeating the Subject

    de Nandini Bhattacharya ...
    Series series Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
    Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the cinema as motivated by an ongoing crisis of self-formation in modern India.The book looks at how ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Haunting Bollywood

    Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema

    de Meheli Sen ...
    Haunting Bollywood is a pioneering, interdisciplinary inquiry into the supernatural in Hindi cinema that draws from literary criticism, postcolonial studies, queer theory, history, and cultural studies. Hindi commercial cinema has been invested in the supernatural since its earliest days, but only a small segment of these films have been adequately explored in scholarly work; this book addresses ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • English Heart, Hindi Heartland

    The Political Life of Literature in India

    de Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series Libro 8 - FlashPoints
    English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Beyond Bollywood

    The Cinemas of South India

    de M K Raghavendra ...
    While 'Indian popular cinema', as if by default, has come to mean Bollywood, there are other cinemas in India which are at least as rewarding to study, the largest and perhaps most intriguing among them coming from South India. Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada cinemas have their own colourful histories, megastars and political trajectories. This anthology is an attempt to do justice to the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Documentary Film in India

    An Anthropological History

    de Giulia Battaglia ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    This book maps a hundred years of documentary film practices in India. It demonstrates that in order to study the development of a film practice, it is necessary to go beyond the classic analysis of films and filmmakers and focus on the discourses created around and about the practice in question. The book navigates different historical moments of the growth of documentary filmmaking in India from ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD