Salaam Bollywood: Representations and interpretations

ISBN-13: 9781138649620 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 336 str.

Vikrant Kishore;Amit Sarwal;Parichay Patra

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This book traces the journey of popular Hindi cinema from 1913 to contemporary times when Bollywood has evolved as a part of India s cultural diplomacy. Avoiding a linear, developmental narrative, the book re-examines the developments through the ruptures in the course of cinematic history. The essays in the volume critically consider transformations of the Hindi film industry from its early days to its present self-referential mode, issues of gender, dance and choreography, Bombay cinema s negotiations with the changing cityscape and urbanisms, and concentrate on its multifarious regional, national and transnational implications in the 21st century.

One of the most comprehensive volumes on Bollywood, this work presents an analytical overview of the multiple histories of popular cinema in India and will be useful to scholars and researchers interested in film and media studies, South Asian popular culture and modern India, as well as to cinephiles and general readers alike. "

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Foreword. Introduction  Part I. Histories: Mainstream and Alternative 1. Myths, Markets and Panics: Speculating about the Proto-Cinematic Historical Significance of the Popularity of Two Parsi Theatre Plays at the Turn of the Twentieth Century  2. The Left Encounter: Progressive Voices of Nationalism and Indian Cinema to the 1950s  3. Genre Mixing as Creative Fabrication 4. What Do the Villains Have? Indian Cinema’s Villains in the 1970s Hariprasad Athanickal 5. Inward Bound: Self-referentiality in Bombay Cinema Part II. Bollywood Dance: Re-reading History 6. Dancing to the Songs: History of Dance in Popular Hindi Films 7. Designing the Song and Dance Sequences: Exploring Bollywood’s Cinematic Creativity  8. The Item Girl: Tradition and Transgression in Bollywood Dancing  Part III. Changes in the City Scape, Changes in Cinema 9. Regionalist Disjuncture in Bollywood: Dabangg and the Consumerist Cinema 10. Mourning and Blood-Ties: Macbeth in Mumbai 11. Black Friday: A Screen History of the 1993 Bombay Bomb Blasts  12. The Re-Mapped Dialectics of Contemporary Indian Cinema: Kahaani and That Girl in Yellow Boots  Part IV. Other Regions, Other Nations 13. Marking out the "South" in/of Hindi Cinema: An Approach via Remakes  14. Between Solidarity and the Stereotype: Chandni Chowk to China   15. The Khan Mania: Universal Appeal of Superstar Shahrukh Khan in a Post-globalized Bollywood Era   16. Old Wine in a New Bottle: Bollywood Films Shot in Australia after 9/11  17. The Way Cinema was Banished: The Intervention of Cinema Studies in India