1st Edition
Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India Cinematic Representations and Nationalist Agendas in Hindi Cinema
Foreword by Anjum Rajabali
1. Of War and Intrigue: ‘Medieval’ as Represented on Indian Screen
Urvi Mukhopadyay
2. Humayun and Mughal-e- Azam: History and the Contemporary
Swarnavel Eswaran
3. Re-texturing the Past: The Digital Image and the Contemporary Bollywood Historical Anustup Basu
4. The Gender of War: National Masculinities and Hindutva in Bollywood War Cinema
Aravind S G
5. “The Surgical Strike that Shook the Mughal Empire”: Evacuation and distortion of histories in contemporary Hindi screen cultures
Rudrani Gangopadhyay
6. Raazi (2018): Spying for the Nation
Rutuja Deshmukh
7. Title: History into Myth: Popular Hindi Cinema and the Politics of “True Stories”
Damini Kulkarni
8. Bahujan Legend, Brahmanical telling: Decoding the lens of Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior
Mohimarnab Biswas
9. How Hindutva’s ‘other’ views ‘otherification’: Pakistani response to Bollywood’s Saffron myth making
Farooq Sulehria and Qaisar Abbas
10. “A Great Republic of Hurt Sentiments”: Counter-histories, Nationalism, and the Controversy of the Historical
Ramna Walia
Biography
Swapna Gopinath is an associate professor of film and cultural studies at Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune, India. She is a Fulbright fellow and has completed postdoctoral research on urban spatiality and ideological dimensions in India. She writes on film and culture, and contextualizes contemporary India in the Global South. She also teaches film and culture at FLAME University, Pune, as a visiting faculty member.
Rutuja Deshmukh is a visiting faculty member of the Cinema Department at Savitribai Phule Pune University, India. She also teaches film and culture at FLAME University, Pune as a visiting faculty member. She is currently a research fellow at Symbiosis International University, Pune. Her research areas include popular cinema, popular cultures, and questions of gender and representation at the intersection of neoliberalism. Her work has previously appeared in Economic and Political Weekly, Jump Cut, The Feminist Review, The Wire, FemAsia, Countercurrents, and HimalSouthasian.
