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...
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 diplo...
Australian Made is a collection of essays about the writers, the readers and the texts of multicultural Australia. Despite the different approaches they take, the essays address a number of questions that are important for understanding Australian multicultural society and Australia's national literary culture. How does multiculturalism intersect with different genres and generic conventions? How is cultural diversity expressed and enacted within life writing, women's writing, experimental writing, children's literature, poetry, prose and film? What does it mean to be a 'multicultural...
Australian Made is a collection of essays about the writers, the readers and the texts of multicultural Australia. Despite the different approaches th...