List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Foreword: On Reading the Indian Shakespeare Film
Poonam Trivedi (Indraprastha College, University of Delhi, India)
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West: Past, Present and Future Directions
A Conversation between Varsha Panjwani (NYU London, UK) andKoel Chatterjee (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Dance and Music, UK)PART ONE: Dismantling the Familiar
1. Re-generation: Remapping the Screenscape in Fractious Times
Diana E. Henderson (MIT, USA)
2. Two Indian Film Offshoots of Twelfth NightRobert White (University of Western Australia, Australia)
3. ‘For never was a story of more woe’: Dialogic Telling and Global Interchange in Qayamat se Qayamat Tak, a ‘Bollywood’ Film Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
4. ‘Indian’ Independent Cinema and Shakespeare: Conversations with Sharat Katariya and Vandana Kataria
Tula Goenka (Syracuse University, USA)
5. Vandana Kataria’s Noblemen: Global Frames of Interpretation
Taarini Mookherjee (Columbia University, USA)
6. Chutzpah: The Politics of Bollywood Shakespeare Subtitles
Varsha Panjwani (NYU London, UK)PART TWO: Re-contextualizing the Strangers
7. Curating Indian Shakespeares at the BFI in 2016
Helen deWitt in conversation with Anne Sophie Refskou (Aarhus University, Denmark)
8. “Traveling” with Shakespeare through Bhardwaj’s Haider: Some Challenges in Teaching Global Shakespearean Adaptations in US University Classrooms: The Global Shakespeare Movement
Jyotsna Singh (Michigan State University, USA)
9. Understanding Nimmi: Tracing Interpretations of Vishal Bhardwaj’s MaqboolAna Laura Magis Weinberg (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)
10. ‘Naina thag lenge’: Visual Uncertainty in Othello and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara Shani Bans (University College London, UK)
11. A Pair Of Homotextual Lovers: Bhansali’s Ram-Leela and Shakespeare’s Romeo & JulietAmritesh Singh (University of St Andrews, UK)
12. ‘All the world’s a stage’: The Participatory Indian Cinema Audience and its Impact on Indian Shakespeare Films
Koel Chatterjee (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Dance and Music, UK)
Afterword: Sonia Massai (King's College London, UK)
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