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Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas:

1st Edition

Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas "Local Habitations"

Edited By Poonam Trivedi, Paromita Chakravarti Copyright 2019
358 Pages
by Routledge

358 Pages
by Routledge

358 Pages
by Routledge
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This book is the first to explore the rich archive of Shakespeare in Indian cinemas, including less familiar, Indian language cinemas to contribute to the assessment of the expanding repertoire of Shakespeare films worldwide. Essays cover mainstream and regional Indian cinemas such as the better known Tamil and Kannada, as well as the less familiar regions of the North Eastern states. The volume... Read more

Introduction Poonam Trivedi and Paromita Chakravarti



Part I. Indigenising the Tragic



1. Woman as Avenger: ‘Indianising’ the Shakespearean Tragic in the Films of Vishal Bhardwaj   Poonam Trivedi



2. Eklavya: Shakespeare Meets the Mahabharata   Robert S White



3. Reworking Shakespeare in Telugu Cinema: King Lear to Gunasundari Katha   Nishi Pulugartha



4. Shakespeare in Malayalam Cinema: Cultural and Mythic Interface, Narrative Negotiations   C.S. Venkiteswaran



5. ‘Where art thou Muse that thou forget’st so long,/To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?’: Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988) – A Neglected Shakespeare Film   Koel Chatterjee



Part II. Critical Innovations: Historiography of Silence and Poetics of Rasa



6. The Indian ‘Silent’ Shakespeare: Recouping an Archive   Amrit Gangar



7. Shakespeare, Cinema and Indian Poetics   Anil Zankar



Part III. Between the Global and the Local



8. Such a Long Journey: Rohinton Mistry’s Parsi King Lear from Fiction to Film Preti Taneja



9. Cinematic Lears and Bengaliness: Locus, Identity, Language   Paromita Chakravarti



10. Shakespeare and Indian Independent Cinema: 8 × 10 Tasveer and 10ml Love   Varsha Panjwani



11. "Singing is Such Sweet Sorrow": Ambikapathi, Hollywood Shakespeare and Tamil Cinema’s Hybrid Heritage   Thea Buckley



Part IV. Reimagining Gender, Region and Nation



12. Gendered Play and Regional Dialogue in Nanjundi Kalyana   Mark Thornton Burnett



13. Not the Play but the Playing: Citation of Performing Shakespeare as a Trope in Tamil Cinema   A. Mangai



14. Indianising The Comedy of Errors: Bhranti Bilash and Its Aftermaths   Amrita Sen



15. Regional Reflections: Shakespeare in Assamese Cinema   Parthajit Baruah



Part V. Interviews



Part VI. Filmography

Biography

Poonam Trivedi was Associate Professor in English at Indraprastha College, University of Delhi, India and is currently the vice-chair of the Asian Shakespeare Association.





Paromita Chakravarti is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India.

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