Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas

ISBN-13: 9780415677745 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 473 str.

K. Moti Gokulsing; Wimal Dissanayake

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Description: India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After years of marginalisation by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the centre of the world cinema in a comparatively short space of time. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars in the field, this Handbook looks at the complex reasons for this remarkable journey. Combining a historical and thematic approach, the Handbook discusses how Indian cinemas need to be understood in their historical unfolding as well as their complex relationships to social, economic, cultural, political, ideological, aesthetic, technical and institutional discourses. The thematic section provides an up-to-date critical narrative on diverse topics such as audience, censorship, film distribution, film industry, diaspora, sexuality, film music and nationalism. The Handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting edge survey of Indian cinemas, discussing Popular, Parallel/New Wave and Regional cinemas as well as the spectacular rise of Bollywood. It is an invaluable resource for students and academics of South Asian Studies, Film Studies and Cultural Studies.

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1. Introduction  Part 1: Historical Analysis 2. From Cultural Backwardness to the Age of Imitation: An Essay in Film History 3. The Indian New Wave 4. Regional Cinemas: 4.1 ‘Bengali’ Cinema: Its Making and Unmaking 4.2 Assamese Cinema: Dreams, Reality and Dichotomies 4.3 Odia (the new name for Oriya) Cinema at 75 4.4 Marathi Cinema: The Exile, the Factory and Fame 4.5 Gujarati Cinema: Stories of Sant, Sati, Shethani and Sparks Afew 4.6 Matriliny to Masculinity: Performing Modernity and Gender in Malayalam Cinema 4.7 Kannada Cinema and Princely Mysore 4.8 The Star-politicians of Tamil Nadu: The origin and emergence 4.9 Beyond the Star: Telegu Comedy Films and Realpolitik in Andhra Pradesh 4.10 Mapping the invisible world of Bhojpuri cinema and its changing audience 4.11 From Lahore to Bombay…and Vancouver: The Chequered Journey of Punjabi Cinema Part 2: Themes and Perspectives 5. The evolution of representing Female sexuality in Hindi Cinema 1991 - 2010 6. Queer Times in Bollywood 7. The Scale of Diasporic Cinema: Negotiating National and Transnational Cultural Citizenship 8. The Shifting Terrains of Nationalism and Patriotism in Indian Cinemas 9. Digitizing the National Imaginary: Technology and Hybridization in Hindi Film Songs of the Post-Liberalization Period 10. Trends in Hindi Film music with special reference to Socio-Economic and Political Changes 11. Music in Mainstream Indian Cinema 12. Scriptwriting- In and Out of the Box 13. The Fictions of Science and Cinema in India 14. Film Censorship in India: Deconstructing an Incongruity 15. Advertising and marketing of the Indian Cinema Part 3: The Business of Indian Cinemas 16. Film Distribution: The Changing Landscape 17. Corporatization and the Hindi Film Industry 18. Indian Cinemas: Acknowledging Property Rights  19. Foundations, Movements and Dissonant Images: documentary film and its ambivalent relations to the nation state Part 4: Cinema Halls and Audiences 20. Active Audiences and the Experience of Cinema 21. Hindi film audiences outside South Asia  22. Cinema as Social Space: The Case of the Multiplex 23. Virtual Darshan: social networking and virtual communities in the Hindi film context 24. Conclusion