With its sudden explosions into song-and-dance sequences, heavy traces of censorship and half-time intermissions, Indian cinema can be identified as a "Cinema of Interruptions". A contribution to film genre studies which looks at the relationship Indian cinema shares with its audience.
With its sudden explosions into song-and-dance sequences, heavy traces of censorship and half-time intermissions, Indian cinema can be identified as a...
In January 1993 sectarian rioting left two thousand Hindus and Muslims dead in Bombay. Only two years later Mani Ratnam's audacious Tamil filmBombay(1995) used these events as a backdrop to a love story between a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl.Bombaywas condemned by Muslim critics for misrepresentation and was embroiled in censorship controversies. These served only to heighten interest and the film ran to packed houses in India and abroad. Lalitha Gopolan shows howBombaystruggles to find a narrative that can reconcile communal differences. She looks in detail at the way...
In January 1993 sectarian rioting left two thousand Hindus and Muslims dead in Bombay. Only two years later Mani Ratnam's audacious Tamil filmBomba...
The Cinema of India examines in detail twenty-four landmark films from one of the world's largest national cinemas. Gathering writings by renowned scholars of Indian cinema, this collection provides a novel framework for reading film. Taken together, these essays act as a guide to deciphering the varied terrain of Indian film production and its reception both nationally and globally. The volume offers a comprehensive consideration of the histories of different regional cinemas; the role of studios; the place of "middle" cinema and its relationship to state subsidies; the style of...
The Cinema of India examines in detail twenty-four landmark films from one of the world's largest national cinemas. Gathering writings by renow...
