Indian Literature and Popular Cinema: Recasting Classics

ISBN-13: 9780415447416 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 288 str.

Pauwels Heidi

Opis

This book considers the popular cinema of North India (Bollywood) and how it recasts literary classics. It addresses the socio-political implications of popular reinterpretations of elite culture, exploring gender issues and the perceived sexism of popular films and how that plays out when literature is reworked into film.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Indian Epics in Film  1. Bending the Bharata: Two Uncommon Cinematic Adaptations  Philip Lutgendorf  2. Family, Feminism, and Film in Remaking the Ramayana Vidyut Aklujkar  Part 2. Casting Classical Sanskrit Drama  3. Sakuntala: The Look and the Image in Literature, Theatre, and Cinema Gayatri Chatterjee  4. Mrcchakatikam to Utsav: Recreation of a Sanskrit Classic by Girish Karnad Vidyut Aklujkar  Part 3. Saints on the Screen  5. Bhakti Songs Recast: Gulzar’s Meera Movie Heidi Pauwels  Part 4. Genre and Themes from Indo-Islamic Culture  6. Religious Culture and Folklore in the Urdu Historical Drama Anarkali, Revisited by Indian Cinema Alain Désoulières  7. From Ghazal to Film Music: The Case of Mirza Ghalib Naseem Hines  Part 5. Classics from Colonial Literature  8. Remembering, Repeating, and Working through Devdas Corey K. Creekmur  9. The Political Aesthetic of Nation and Gender in Rituparno Ghosh’s Chokher Bali Mandakranta Bose  Part 6. Agenda-Driven Literature  10. Lyrically Speaking: Hindi Film Songs and the Progressive Aesthetic Ali Mir  11. Dharmputra and the Partition of India Cecilia Cossio.  Conclusion

O autorze

Heidi Pauwels is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. She teaches both Modern and Old Hindi language and literature, and courses on Hinduism. Her publications include two monographs on sixteenth-century bhakti: Krsna's round dance reconsidered: Hariram Vyas's Hindi Ras-pancadhyayi (1996) and In praise of holy men: Hagiographic poems by and about Hariram Vyas (2002) and various articles in scholarly journals and conference proceedings, including comparisons of medieval and contemporary film and television retellings of the stories of Krishna and Rama.