232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
232 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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.
The book looks at how... Read more
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
Biography
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.
