Shooting Terror: Terrorism in Hindi Films

ISBN-13: 9781032174099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 196 str.

Meenakshi Bharat

Opis

Shooting Terror highlights the disturbing immediacy of acts of terror and how cinema responds to them. It follows the changing representations of terrorism in Hindi cinema by fielding in-depth textual analyses of films such as Roja, Maachis, Black Friday, Tere Bin Laden, Uri: The Surgical Strike, among others.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements 1. Filmic witness to terror 2. Early films on terrorism in Kashmir 3. Kashmir: paradise desecrated 4. Home-focused terrorism 5. Mumbai under attack: gnawing away at the innards 6. Beyond borders: the international reach of postterrorist Hindi films 7. Growing maturity: humour in the Hindi film on terror 8. Reckoning postterrorism in Hindi cinema Filmography Bibliography Index

O autorze

Meenakshi Bharat teaches in the University of Delhi and is a writer, translator, reviewer, and critic. Her special interests include children’s literature, women’s fiction, film studies, postcolonial, English, and cultural studies. Her most recent publications are Troubled Testimonies: Terrorism and the Indian Novel in English (2015) and an anthology of Indo-Australian short fiction, Glass Walls: Stories on Tolerance and Intolerance (2019).