242 Pages
55 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
242 Pages
55 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
242 Pages
55 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book offers an introduction to popular Hindi cinema, a genre that has a massive fan base but is often misunderstood by critics, and provides insight on topics of political and social significance.
Arguing that Bollywood films are not realist representations of society or expressions of conservative ideology but mediated texts that need to be read for their formulaic and melodramatic... Read more
Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1, Structure
Chapter 2, Love
Chapter 3, Song and Dance
Chapter 4, Visual Style
Chapter 5, Cinephilia
Part II
Chapter 6, Nationalism
Chapter 7, Gender and Sexuality
Part III
Chapter 8, The Future of Bollywood
Biography
Ulka Anjaria is Professor of English at Brandeis University, where she writes and teaches on South Asian literature and film. She is the author of Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form (2012) and Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture (2019), and is the editor of A History of the Indian Novel in English (2015).
