Meera Kosambi

Gender, Culture, and Performance (eBook, ePUB)

Marathi Theatre and Cinema before Independence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a lucid, comprehensive, and entertaining narrative of culture and society in late 19th- and early 20th-century Maharashtra through a perceptive study of its theatre and cinema. An intellectual tour de force, it will be invaluable to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, theatre and film studies, cultural studies, sociology, gender studies as well as the interested general reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351565899
• Artikelnr.: 49044539

Autorenporträt

Meera Kosambi is a sociologist and was formerly Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Women's Studies at the Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey (S.N.D.T.) Women's University, Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Vishnudas Bhave's Stylised
Mythologicals (1843) 2. Prose Plays: Reinventing and Founding Traditions
(c. 1860) 3. B.P. Kirloskar's Musical Plays (1880) 4. New Paradigms of
Social Realism (1930s) 5. The Kirloskar Trio: Deval, Kolhatkar, Gadkari 6.
'Natyacharya' Khadilkar: Ideology and Entertainment 7. Selected Renowned
Playwrights 8. Major Theatre Companies 9. The Theatre World 10. Enter
Women: Pioneering Women Dramatists and Actresses 11. Bal Gandharva: From
Female Impersonator to Icon of New Womanhood 12. Drama as a Mode of
Discourse 13. Silent Films and Talkies 14. The Early Silver Stars.
References. About the Author. Index