1st Edition
Critical Social Science Perspectives on Indian Cinema
Introduction
1. Film Theory and Its Application: A Historiographical Survey
Radhika Seshan
2. The Mughals in Indian Cinema: Fascination, Trends and Representation
Moon Moon Jetley
3. Lokshahir Ram Joshi (1947) and Amar Bhoopali (1951): The Socio-Cultural Reflections of the Later Peshwa Period in Marathi Cinema
Varsha Shirgaonkar
4. Nationalism, Censorship and the History of Early Years of Cinema in India
Anil Sonawane
5. Gandhi in Cinema and Gandhian Cinema: Locating Gandhi Through Indian Cinema
Santosh Kumar
6. Romancing War Bollywood Style: A Short Essay on War Cinema in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Anirudh Deshpande
7. Violent Belongings: Gender, Communal Identity and Nation-Making in Partition Cinema
Paromita Chakrabarti
8. Cinematic Images of Gender Dystopia in India: Imagined or Real?
Preeta Nilesh and Nilakshi Roy
9. Trajectory of the Queer in Indian Cinema
Sachin Labade
10. From Akbar Illahabadi to Ashraf Ali: A Gradual Demonisation of the Muslim Masculinity in Popular Hindi Cinema
Shyaonti Talwar
11. Reflection of Socialism Through Hindi Cinema
Sandhya Pandit
12. Humanism in Cinema: The Work of Satyajit Ray
Ruby Maloni
13. Shyam Benegal: An Unconventional Storyteller
Hemadri Pradeep Ludbe and Reechi Prakash Tatkare
14. Cinematic Representations of the Tapori: Space and the Politics of Bambaiyya
Hridaya Ajgaonkar
15. Changing Mumbai in Hindi Cinema
Neeta Mahendra Khandpekar
16. The Indian Diaspora and Hindi Cinema: A Critique
Anagha Kamble
Contributors
Index
Biography
Anirudh Deshpande is Professor, Deparment of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
Anagha Kamble is Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India.
“This book offers a collection of articles by scholars from the fields of History and English. This anthology attempts to answer pertinent questions on Indian cinema from the perspective of a social science. The sixteen articles in this critical anthology range from film theory to rarely considered aspects of Indian cinema such as the portrayal of the Mughals.
With such a wide and varied selection of subjects and serious scholarship this collection should be an important addition to writing on the Indian cinema and should be of interest to academics and research scholars.”
— Nilufer E. Bharucha, Former Professor and Head, University of Mumbai, India
