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1 online resource |
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Introduction; Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra -- PART I: EXPLORING THE OTHER: CINEMA, AESTHETICS, PHILOSOPHY -- 1. Self, Other and Bollywood: The Evolution of the Hindi Film as a Site of Ambivalence Dibyakusum Ray -- 2. Bombay Cinema's Aesthetic Other: Hindi "Shastriya" Cinema in Retrospect; Parichay Patra -- PART II: DIASPORA AND THE FORMATION OF THE GLOBAL BOLLYWOOD -- 3. Transgressing the Moral Universe: Bollywood and the Terrain of the Representable; Sarah A. Joshi -- 4. A Perfect Match: Entertainment and Excess of Cricket within the Diasporic Experience of Bollywood; Sanchari De and Manas Ghosh -- PART III: THE MUSICALITY OF BOLLYWOOD: POSSIBILITIES OF ALTERNATIVE READING(S) -- 5. Hindi Popular Cinema and Its Peripheries: Of Female Singers, Approaches, and the Presence/Absence of Suraiya; Madhuja Mukherjee -- 6. 'Dil Dance Maare Re': Bollywoodisation of the Indian Folk Dance Forms; Vikrant Kishore -- 7. The Systems Model of Creativity and Indian Film: A Study of Two Young Music Directors from Kerala, India; Phillip McIntyre, Bob Davis, and Vikrant Kishore -- PART IV: BOLLYWOOD'S OTHER(S): SEXUALITY, B MOVIE, QUEERNESS -- 8. Sugar and Spice: The Golden Age of the Hindi Movie Vamps, 1960s-70s; Suneeti Rekhari -- 9. Popular Forms, Altering Normativities: Queer Buddies in Contemporary Mainstream Hindi Cinema; Aneeta Rajendran -- 10. Hinglish Cinema: The Confluence of East and West in Bollywood; Prateek and Amit Sarwal -- 11. The Ramsay Chronicles: Non-normative Sexualities in "Purana Mandir "and "Bandh Darwaza"; Mithuraaj Dhusiya -- 12. Bollywood's Encounters with the Third Kind: A Critical Catalogue of Hindi Science Fiction Films; Sami Ahmad Khan -- PART V: BOLLYWOOD'S OTHER, INDIA'S OTHER -- 13. Death Becomes Her: Bombay Cinema, Nation and Kashmir : In conversation with Desire Machine Collective, Guwahati; Kaushik Bhaumik -- Afterword; Anupam Sharma |
| Summary |
How do we define the globalized cinema and media cultures of Bollywood in an age when it has become part of the cultural diplomacy of an emerging superpower? Is it still an 'other' industry in a world dominated by Hollywood? Bollywood and Its Other(s) aims to compensate for the lack of scholarly literature on Indian film by opening up hitherto unexplored sites or sites that are in formation. It focuses on the aesthetic-philosophical questions of the other, Indian diaspora's negotiations with national identity, alternative reading strategies/research methods, marginal genres (sci-fi, horror), marginal characters (flaneuse, vamps), marginal gender (non-normative sexualities), marginal cinema (Hindi avant-garde), marginal language (Hinglish), and marginal regions (the Kashmir valley). It intends to address film scholars, South Asian studies researchers, cinephiles and lay readers alike |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Motion picture industry -- India -- Mumbai.
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Motion pictures, Hindi -- India -- Mumbai
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Motion picture industry
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Motion pictures, Hindi
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India -- Mumbai
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kishore, Vikrant, 1976- editor.
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Sarwal, Amit, editor
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Patra, Parichay, 1985- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137426505 |
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1137426500 |
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