Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas: Local Habitations

ISBN-13: 9780367665777 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 344 str.

Poonam Trivedi; Paromita Chakravarti

Opis

This book explores Shakespeare in Indian cinemas, including less familiar, Indian language cinemas to contribute to current studies in global Shakespeare. Visiting diverse filmic genres and expanding the very notion of ‘Indian cinema’, essays focus on the inter-textualities between Shakespearean theatre, regional cinema, performative traditions,

Spis treści

Introduction Poonam Trivedi and Paromita Chakravarti

Part I. Indigenising the Tragic

1. Woman as Avenger: ‘Indianising’ the Shakespearean Tragic in the Films of Vishal Bhardwaj   Poonam Trivedi

2. Eklavya: Shakespeare Meets the Mahabharata   Robert S White

3. Reworking Shakespeare in Telugu Cinema: King Lear to Gunasundari Katha   Nishi Pulugartha

4. Shakespeare in Malayalam Cinema: Cultural and Mythic Interface, Narrative Negotiations   C.S. Venkiteswaran

5. ‘Where art thou Muse that thou forget’st so long,/To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?’: Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988) – A Neglected Shakespeare Film   Koel Chatterjee

Part II. Critical Innovations: Historiography of Silence and Poetics of Rasa

6. The Indian ‘Silent’ Shakespeare: Recouping an Archive   Amrit Gangar

7. Shakespeare, Cinema and Indian Poetics   Anil Zankar

Part III. Between the Global and the Local

8. Such a Long Journey: Rohinton Mistry’s Parsi King Lear from Fiction to Film Preti Taneja

9. Cinematic Lears and Bengaliness: Locus, Identity, Language   Paromita Chakravarti

10. Shakespeare and Indian Independent Cinema: 8 × 10 Tasveer and 10ml Love   Varsha Panjwani

11. "Singing is Such Sweet Sorrow": Ambikapathi, Hollywood Shakespeare and Tamil Cinema’s Hybrid Heritage   Thea Buckley

Part IV. Reimagining Gender, Region and Nation

12. Gendered Play and Regional Dialogue in Nanjundi Kalyana   Mark Thornton Burnett

13. Not the Play but the Playing: Citation of Performing Shakespeare as a Trope in Tamil Cinema   A. Mangai

14. Indianising The Comedy of Errors: Bhranti Bilash and Its Aftermaths   Amrita Sen

15. Regional Reflections: Shakespeare in Assamese Cinema   Parthajit Baruah

Part V. Interviews

Part VI. Filmography

O autorze

Poonam Trivedi was Associate Professor in English at Indraprastha College, University of Delhi, India and is currently the vice-chair of the Asian Shakespeare Association.

Paromita Chakravarti is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India.