Figurations in Indian Film [electronic resource] /
Sen, Meheli.author.
Basu, Anustup.author.
This volume brings together a series of essays that interrogate the notion of figuration in Indian cinemas. The essays collectively argue that the figures which exhibit maximum tenacity in Indian cinema often emerge in the interface of recognizable binaries: self/other, Indian/foreign, good/bad, virtue/vice, myth/reality and urban/rural.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Political and Typological Figures; 1 Sensate Outlaws: The Recursive Social Bandit in Indian Popular Cultures; 2 What Happened to Khadi? Dress and Costume in Bombay Cinema; 3 Configuring the Other: The Detective and the Real in Satyajit Ray's Chiriakhana; Part II: Generic Mutations; 4 Diverting Diseases; 5 Nevla as Dracula: Figurations of the Tantric as Monster in the Hindi Horror Film; 6 Haunted Havelis and Hapless Heroes: Gender, Genre, and the Hindi Gothic Film; Part III: Star Figures
7 ""The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships"": Helen and Public Femininity in Hindi Film8 From Superman to Shahenshah: Stardom and the Transnational Corporeality of Hrithik Roshan; 9 Con-figurations: The Body as World in Bollywood Stardom; Part IV: Figuring (out) New Bollywood; 10 Metafiguring Bollywood: Brecht after Om Shanti Om; 11 Bodies in Syncopation; 12 Between Violetta and Vasantasena Is Toulouse-Lautrec: Cinematic Avatars and Bollywood in Moulin Rouge!; Afterword; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume brings together a series of essays that interrogate the notion of figuration in Indian cinemas. The essays collectively argue that the figures which exhibit maximum tenacity in Indian cinema often emerge in the interface of recognizable binaries: self/other, Indian/foreign, good/bad, virtue/vice, myth/reality and urban/rural.
Motion pictures—Production and direction.
Motion pictures—History.
Motion pictures and television.
Film genres.
Communication.
Directing.
Film History.
Screen Studies.
Genre.
Media Studies.