Author : K. Gokulsing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : OCLC:1200491161
Indian Popular Cinema
K. Gokulsing
Indian Popular Cinema
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Indian Popular Cinema
K. Moti Gokulsing,Wimal Dissanayake
Author : K. Moti Gokulsing,Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher : Stylus Publishing, LLC.
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 1858563291
Indian Popular Cinema by K. Moti Gokulsing,Wimal Dissanayake Pdf
The book reviews nine decades of Indian popular cinema and examines its immense influence on people in India and its diaspora. Since it was published in 1998, Indian film has developed in new directions. As films today vie with Indian soap operas for popularity, film making in India has acquired 'industry status' and consequently has greater accountability to its public. All this is reflected in this new and extensively revised edition of "Indian Popular Cinema". It tracks the rise of "designer cinema," reviews the increasingly significant Tamil cinema, and considers films made by Indians in the diaspora.
National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987
Sumita S. Chakravarty
Author : Sumita S. Chakravarty
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292789852
National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987 by Sumita S. Chakravarty Pdf
Although Indian popular cinema has a long history and is familiar to audiences around the world, it has rarely been systematically studied. This book offers the first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood. The study focuses on the cinema’s characteristic forms, its range of meanings and pleasures, and, above all, its ideological construction of Indian national identity. Informed by theoretical developments in film theory, cultural studies, postcolonial discourse, and “Third World” cinema, the book identifies the major genres and movements within Bombay cinema since Independence and uses them to enter larger cultural debates about questions of identity, authenticity, citizenship, and collectivity. Chakravarty examines numerous films of the period, including Guide (Vijay Anand, 1965), Shri 420 [The gentleman cheat] (Raj Kapoor, 1955), and Bhumika [The role] (Shyam Benegal, 1977). She shows how “imperso-nation,” played out in masquerade and disguise, has characterized the representation of national identity in popular films, so that concerns and conflicts over class, communal, and regional differences are obsessively evoked, explored, and neutralized. These findings will be of interest to film and area specialists, as well as general readers in film studies.
Indian Literature and Popular Cinema
Heidi R.M. Pauwels
Author : Heidi R.M. Pauwels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134062553
Indian Literature and Popular Cinema by Heidi R.M. Pauwels Pdf
This book considers the popular cinema of North India (Bollywood) and how it recasts literary classics. It addresses the socio-political implications of popular reinterpretations of elite culture, exploring gender issues and the perceived sexism of popular films and how that plays out when literature is reworked into film.
Bollywood and Globalization
Rini Bhattacharya Mehta,Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande
Author : Rini Bhattacharya Mehta,Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857288974
Bollywood and Globalization by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta,Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande Pdf
This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.
Death in Black and White
Charlton D. McIlwain
Author : Charlton D. McIlwain
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015060021303
Death in Black and White by Charlton D. McIlwain Pdf
"Based on a foundation of cultural theory and scholarship, the author explores a variety of issues related to race, culture and death ritual practices by immersing himself in the rich narratives and sources of information gleaned from his in-depth interviews with funeral directors, corporate funeral home representatives, clergy and individuals who have recently lost a loved one. Additionally, he has observed numerous funeral and burial services and cemetery landscapes, and has examined federal and state public policies surrounding burial and disposal, as well as other forms of death-related discourse. Ultimately, the book describes how death rituals both manifest and reinforce different cultural identities, and suggests that perhaps, it is through the experience of death that we might find the most enduring possibilities for promoting greater cultural understanding by maintaining rather than eliminating such differences."--BOOK JACKET.
Indian Popular Cinema
K. Moti Gokulsing,Wimal Dissanayake
Author : K. Moti Gokulsing,Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher : Trentham Books Limited
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015040374533
Indian Popular Cinema by K. Moti Gokulsing,Wimal Dissanayake Pdf
This is an engaging introduction to a fascinating national cinema that is little known in the west.It is the first survey both to cover the full range of Indian film -- popular, artistic and regional -- and to provide the historical and cultural dimensions to enable the reader appreciate its distinctive forms.This book offers both general readers and students of film a succinct and informative guide to the key developments, themes, films and figures of Indian film; and the necessary background to understand India and its influences."Bollywood" and India s regional filmmakers produce more films than any other country. While it has remained peripheral to western cinema buffs, Indian popular film wields immense influence as the main form of entertainment enjoyed by Indian audiences and the Indian Diaspora, who represent at least a sixth of the world s population. The authors begin with an overview of the historical development of Indian cinema, its key characteristics and points of distinctiveness; and then explore the themes and concerns which are pertinent to a critical understanding, through discussion of a wide range of films. A key chapter considers how women are represented, and represent themselves, on screen.Covering the nine decades of Indian cinema, their range of reference includes both films which have achieved classic status, such as Mother India, Awaara and Sholay, and the lesser known films which are recognized landmarks in the development of the industry. They equally embrace recent developments and the contributions of British Asian filmmakers.The book includes a glossary of Indian terms.
Popular Cinema and Politics in South India
S. Rajanayagam
Author : S. Rajanayagam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317587736
Popular Cinema and Politics in South India by S. Rajanayagam Pdf
This work breaks new ground in the understanding of South Indian cinema and politics. Through incisive analysis and original concepts it illustrates the private, public and cinematic personas of MGR and Rajinikanth. It challenges the popular and scholarly myths surrounding them and shows the constant negotiation of their on-screen and off-screen identities. The book revisits the entire political history of post-Independent Tamil Nadu through its cinema,and presents a refreshing psycho-political and cultural map of contemporary South India. This absorbing volume will be an important read for scholars, teachers and students of film studies, culture and media studies, and politics, especially those interested in South India.
Bollywood
Lalit Mohan Joshi
Author : Lalit Mohan Joshi
Publisher : Lucky Dissanayake
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 9780953703227
Bollywood by Lalit Mohan Joshi Pdf
This work provides an introduction to the enormously successful world of Bollywood - the biggest film industry on the planet. It includes a selection of writings by some of the most prominent voices in Indian film writing and criticism.
The Cinematic ImagiNation [sic]
Jyotika Virdi
Author : Jyotika Virdi
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813531918
The Cinematic ImagiNation [sic] by Jyotika Virdi Pdf
Pivoting on the nation as a central preoccupation in Hindi films, Virdi (communication and film and media studies, U. of Windsor, Canada) contends that Hindi cinema appropriates familiar Hollywood cinematic strategies for its own distinctive aesthetics and poetics. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema
Florian Stadtler
Author : Florian Stadtler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135964306
Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema by Florian Stadtler Pdf
This book analyses the novels of Salman Rushdie and their stylistic conventions in the context of Indian popular cinema and its role in the elaboration of the author’s arguments about post-independence postcolonial India. Focusing on different genres of Indian popular cinema, such as the ‘Social’, ‘Mythological’ and ‘Historical’, Stadtler examines how Rushdie’s writing foregrounds the epic, the mythic, the tragic and the comic, linking them in storylines narrated in cinematic parameters. The book shows that Indian popular cinema’s syncretism becomes an aesthetic marker in Rushdie’s fiction that allows him to elaborate on the multiplicity of Indian identity, both on the subcontinent and abroad, and illustrates how Rushdie uses Indian popular cinema in his narratives to express an aesthetics of hybridity and a particular conceptualization of culture with which ‘India’ has become identified in a global context. Also highlighted are Rushdie’s uses of cinema to inflect his reading of India as a pluralist nation and of the hybrid space occupied by the Indian diaspora across the world. The book connects Rushdie’s storylines with modes of cinematic representation to explore questions about the role, place and space of the individual in relation to a fast-changing social, economic and political space in India and the wider world.
Bollyworld
Raminder Kaur,Ajay J Sinha
Author : Raminder Kaur,Ajay J Sinha
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780761933205
Bollyworld by Raminder Kaur,Ajay J Sinha Pdf
Popular Indian Cinema is clearly a worldwide phenomenon. But what often gets overlooked in this celebration is this cinema’s intricate relationship with global dynamics since its very inception in the 1890s. With contributions from a range of international scholars, this volume analyses the transnational networks of India’s popular cinema in terms of its production, narratives and reception. The first section of the book,Topographies, concentrates on the globalised audio-visual economies within which the technologies and aesthetics of India’s commercial cinema developed. Essays here focus on the iconic roles of actors like Devika Rani and Fearless Nadia, film-makers such as D G Phalke and Baburao Painter, the film Sant Tukaram, and aspects of early cinematography. The second section, Trans-Actions, argues that the ‘national fantasy’ of Indian commercial cinema is an unstable construction. Essays here concentrate on the conversations between Indian action movies of the 1970s and other genres of action and martial arts films; the features of post-liberalisation Indian films designed to meet the needs of an ‘imagined’ global audience in the 1990s; and the changing metaphor of ‘the vamp’ as portrayed through desirous women in films with examples of the Anglo-Asian, the westernized Indian woman of ‘low character’, and the contemporary figure of the ‘heroine’. The final section, Travels, focuses on the overseas reception of Indian cinema with ethnographic case studies from Germany, Guyana, the USA, South Africa, Nigeria and Britain. The contributors highlight various issues concerning modernity, racial/ethnic identity, the gaze of the ‘mainstream Other’, gender, hybridity, moral universes, and the articulation of desire and disdain.
Indian Cinema: A Very Short Introduction
Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Author : Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191034770
Indian Cinema: A Very Short Introduction by Ashish Rajadhyaksha Pdf
One film out of every five made anywhere on earth comes from India. From its beginnings under colonial rule through to the heights of Bollywood , Indian Cinema has challenged social injustices such as caste, the oppression of Indian women, religious intolerance, rural poverty, and the pressures of life in the burgeoning cities. And yet, the Indian movie industry makes only about five percent of Hollywood's annual revenue. In this Very Short Introduction Ashish Rajadhyaksha delves into the political, social, and economic factors which, over time, have shaped Indian Cinema into a fascinating counterculture. Covering everything from silent cinema through to the digital era, Rajadhyaksha examines how the industry reflects the complexity and variety of Indian society through the dramatic changes of the 20th century, and into the beginnings of the 21st. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable
Narratives of Indian Cinema
Manju Jain
Author : Manju Jain
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Film adaptations
ISBN : 9788190891844
Narratives of Indian Cinema by Manju Jain Pdf
This collection of essays by subject specialists examines the politics of violence, communalism, and terrorism as negotiated in cinema; the representations of identitarian politics; and the complex ideological underpinnings of literary adaptations.
Bollywood and Globalization
Rini Bhattacharya Mehta,Rajeshwari Pandharipande
Author : Rini Bhattacharya Mehta,Rajeshwari Pandharipande
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857287823
Bollywood and Globalization by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta,Rajeshwari Pandharipande Pdf
This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.