Meenakshi Bharat

Shooting Terror (eBook, PDF)

Terrorism in Hindi Films

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Produktbeschreibung

Shooting Terror highlights the disturbing immediacy of acts of terror and how cinema responds to them. It follows the changing representations of terrorism in Hindi cinema by fielding in-depth textual analyses of films such as Roja, Maachis, Black Friday, Tere Bin Laden, Uri: The Surgical Strike, among others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000024913
• Artikelnr.: 58691701

Autorenporträt

Meenakshi Bharat teaches in the University of Delhi and is a writer, translator, reviewer, and critic. Her special interests include children's literature, women's fiction, film studies, postcolonial, English, and cultural studies. Her most recent publications are Troubled Testimonies: Terrorism and the Indian Novel in English (2015) and an anthology of Indo-Australian short fiction, Glass Walls: Stories on Tolerance and Intolerance (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1. Filmic witness to terror 2. Early films on terrorism in
Kashmir 3. Kashmir: paradise desecrated 4. Home-focused terrorism 5.
Mumbai under attack: gnawing away at the innards 6. Beyond borders: the
international reach of postterrorist Hindi films 7. Growing maturity:
humour in the Hindi film on terror 8. Reckoning postterrorism in Hindi
cinema Filmography Bibliography Index