Understanding Bollywood: The Grammar of Hindi Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780367265441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 226 str.

Ulka Anjaria

Opis

This book offers an introduction to popular Hindi cinema, a genre that has a massive fan base but is often misunderstood by critics, providing insight on topics of political and social significance.

Spis treści

Introduction ; Part I ; 1. Structure ; 2. Love ; 3. Song and Dance ; 4. Visual Style ; 5. Cinephilia ; Part II ; 6. Nationalism ; 7. Gender and Sexuality ; Part III ; 8. The Future of Bollywood

O autorze

Ulka Anjaria is Professor of English at Brandeis University, where she writes and teaches on South Asian literature and film. She is the author of Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form (2012) and Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture (2019), and is the editor of A History of the Indian Novel in English (2015).