Bollywood and Its Other(s): Towards New Configurations

ISBN-13: 9781137426499 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 229 str.

Vikrant Kishore; Amit Sarwal; Parichay Patra

Opis

How do we define the globalized cinema and media cultures of Bollywood in an age when it has become part of the cultural diplomacy of an emerging superpower? Is it still an 'other' industry in a world dominated by Hollywood? Bollywood and Its Other(s) aims to compensate for the lack of scholarly literature on Indian film by opening up hitherto unexplored sites or sites that are in formation. It focuses on the aesthetic-philosophical questions of the other, Indian diaspora's negotiations with national identity, alternative reading strategies/research methods, marginal genres (sci-fi, horror), marginal characters (flaneuse, vamps), marginal gender (non-normative sexualities), marginal cinema (Hindi avant-garde), marginal language (Hinglish), and marginal regions (the Kashmir valley). It intends to address film scholars, South Asian studies researchers, cinephiles and lay readers alike.

Spis treści

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction; Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra PART I: EXPLORING THE OTHER: CINEMA, AESTHETICS, PHILOSOPHY 1. Self, Other and Bollywood: The Evolution of the Hindi Film as a Site of Ambivalence Dibyakusum Ray 2. Bombay Cinema's Aesthetic Other: Hindi Shastriya Cinema in Retrospect; Parichay Patra PART II: DIASPORA AND THE FORMATION OF THE GLOBAL BOLLYWOOD 3. Transgressing the Moral Universe: Bollywood and the Terrain of the Representable; Sarah A. Joshi 4. A Perfect Match: Entertainment and Excess of Cricket within the Diasporic Experience of Bollywood; Sanchari De and Manas Ghosh PART III: THE MUSICALITY OF BOLLYWOOD: POSSIBILITIES OF ALTERNATIVE READING(S) 5. Hindi Popular Cinema and Its Peripheries: Of Female Singers, Approaches, and the Presence/Absence of Suraiya; Madhuja Mukherjee 6. 'Dil Dance Maare Re': Bollywoodisation of the Indian Folk Dance Forms; Vikrant Kishore 7. The Systems Model of Creativity and Indian Film: A Study of Two Young Music Directors from Kerala, India; Phillip McIntyre, Bob Davis, and Vikrant Kishore PART IV: BOLLYWOOD'S OTHER(S): SEXUALITY, B MOVIE, QUEERNESS 8. Sugar and Spice: The Golden Age of the Hindi Movie Vamps, 1960s-70s; Suneeti Rekhari 9. Popular Forms, Altering Normativities: Queer Buddies in Contemporary Mainstream Hindi Cinema; Aneeta Rajendran 10. Hinglish Cinema: The Confluence of East and West in Bollywood; Prateek and Amit Sarwal 11. The Ramsay Chronicles: Non-normative Sexualities in Purana Mandir and Bandh Darwaza; Mithuraaj Dhusiya 12. Bollywood's Encounters with the Third Kind: A Critical Catalogue of Hindi Science Fiction Films; Sami Ahmad Khan PART V: BOLLYWOOD'S OTHER, INDIA'S OTHER 13. Death Becomes Her: Bombay Cinema, Nation and Kashmir – In conversation with Desire Machine Collective, Guwahati; Kaushik Bhaumik Afterword; Anupam Sharma Index

O autorze

Kaushik Bhaumik, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India Bob Davis, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Sanchari De, Jadavpur University, India Mithuraaj Dhusiya, University of Delhi, India Manas Ghosh, Jadavpur University, India Sami Ahmad Khan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Vikrant Kishore, University of Newcastle, Australia Sarah Joshi, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Phillip McIntyre, University of Newcastle, Australia Madhuja Mukherjee, Jadavpur University, India Parichay Patra, Monash University, Australia Prateek, University of Delhi, India Aneeta Rajendran, Gargi College, University of Delhi, India Dibyakusum Ray, English and Foreign Languages University, India Suneeti Rekhari, Deakin University, Australia Amit Sarwal, Deakin University, Australia Anupam Sharma, Filmmaker and Author, Australia