Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the cinema as motivated by an ongoing crisis of self-formation in modern India.
Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the cinema as motivated by an ongoing crisis of self-formation in modern India.
Nandini Bhattacharya is Professor of English and affiliate of Film, Women's Studies and Africana Studies programs at Texas A&M University, USA. Her interests include South Asia, Postcoloniality, Cinema, Gender and Transnationalism.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Structure, Event and Liminal Practices in Recent Hindi Films 2. Imagining the Past in the Present: Violence, Gender, and Citizenship in Hindi Films 3. The Man Formerly Known as the Actor: When Shah Rukh Khan Reappeared as Himself 4. Romancing Religion: Bollywood's Painless Globalization 5. Love Triangles at Home and Abroad: Male Embodiment as Queer Enactment
Introduction 1. Structure, Event and Liminal Practices in Recent Hindi Films 2. Imagining the Past in the Present: Violence, Gender, and Citizenship in Hindi Films 3. The Man Formerly Known as the Actor: When Shah Rukh Khan Reappeared as Himself 4. Romancing Religion: Bollywood's Painless Globalization 5. Love Triangles at Home and Abroad: Male Embodiment as Queer Enactment
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