Paunksnis

Dark Fear, Eerie Cities

New Hindi Cinema in Neoliberal India

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Produktbeschreibung

Dark Fear, Eerie Cities analyzes a film form that began to emerge in Hindi cinema in early 21st century. The author locates the new cinematic development in a much broader context of cultural change in contemporary India, and traces the roots of imagining India darkly.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780199493180
• ISBN-10: 0199493189
• Artikelnr.: 57355681

Autorenporträt

Sarunas Paunksnis teaches Philosophy at Kaunas University of Technology in Kaunas, Lithuania. His main research areas include but are not limited to Indian cinema, media philosophy, postcolonial theory, globalization and cultural theory. He has recently edited a book titled, Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance (Brill, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgement
* Introduction
* 1. Understanding Cinematic Tranformations and Neoliberal Culture in
India
* 2. Objects in the Mirror are Closer Than They Appear: Imagination and
the Other
* 3. Haunting and Uncanny Cities of Neoliberal India
* 4. Film Noir and the Dark Spaces of New Hindi Cinema
* 5. Screening Masculine Anxiety: Men, Women, and Violence
* Bibliography
* Index
* About the Author