Bollywood in the Age of New Media: The Geo-televisual Aesthetic

ISBN-13: 9780748641024 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 272 str.

Basu

Opis

This study tracks the evolution of 'Bollywood style' in popular Indian cinema between 1991 and 2004. In addressing the social, political and economic implications of this cinematic revolution, Basu finds the frontier of modernisation in the subcontinent today and explains how some features of Bollywood can actually be connected to conservative Brahminical imaginations of class, caste, or gender hierarchies.This comprehensive account of present-day India caught between brave new silicon valleys and farmer suicides will appeal to academics and students alike across a broad range of disciplines, including film, cultural and postcolonial studies.

Spis treści

Section I: Introduction; 1. Cinematic 'Assemblages': The Nineties and Earlier; 2. The Geo-televisual and Hindi Film in the Age of Information; Section II: Informatics, Sovereignty and the Cinematic City; 3. Allegories of Power/Information; 4. The Music of Intolerable Love: Indian Film Music, Globalization, and the Sound of Partitioned Selves; Section III: Myth and Repetition; 5. Technopolis and the Ramayana: New Temporalities; 6. Repetitions with Difference: Mother India and her Thousand Sons; Epilogue