1st Edition

Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema Salman Rushdie’s Novels and the Cinematic Imagination

By Florian Stadtler Copyright 2014
214 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyses the novels of Salman Rushdie and their stylistic conventions in the context of Indian popular cinema and its role in the elaboration of the author’s arguments about post-independence postcolonial India. Focusing on different genres of Indian popular cinema, such as the ‘Social’, ‘Mythological’ and ‘Historical’, Stadtler examines how Rushdie’s writing foregrounds the epic, the... Read more

Introduction.  1. Creating ‘Imaginary Homelands’  2. Heroines, Mothers and Villains: Cinema and Postcolonial National Identities in Midnight’s Children and Shame  3. Filming Rushdie: From Documentaries, Film Criticism to Screenplays  4. The The Satanic Verses and Shree 420: Negotiating Identity through Indian Popular Cinema  5. The Moor’s Last Sigh: Rewriting Mother India  6. The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Fury: Bollywood, Superstardom and Celebrity in the Age of Globalisation  7. Rushdie’s ‘Mission Kashmir’: Mughal-e-Azam and Shalimar the Clown.  Conclusion.

Biography

Florian Stadtler is Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. Previously Research Fellow at The Open University, he has published on South Asian writing in English, Indian popular cinema and British Asian fiction and history. He is Reviews Editor for Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing.

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