Bollywood and its Other(s) [electronic resource] : Towards New Configurations /
Kishore, V.editor.
Sarwal, A.editor.
Patra, P.editor.
How do we define the globalized cinema and media cultures of Bollywood in an age when it has become part of the cultural diplomacy of an emerging superpower? Bollywood and Its Other(s) explores the aesthetic-philosophical questions of the other through, for example, discussions on Indian diaspora's negotiations with national identity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Section I: Exploring the Other: Cinema, Aesthetics, Philosophy; 1 Self, Other and Bollywood: The Evolution of the Hindi Film as a Site of Ambivalence; 2 Bombay Cinema's Aesthetic Other: Hindi Shastriya Cinema in Retrospect; Section II: Diaspora and the Formation of the Global Bollywood; 3 Transgressing the Moral Universe: Bollywood and the Terrain of the Representable; 4 A Perfect Match: Entertainment and Excess of Cricket within the Diasporic Experience of Bollywood
Section III: The Musicality of Bollywood: Possibilities of Alternative Reading(s)5 Hindi Popular Cinema and Its Peripheries: Of Female Singers, Performances and the Presence/Absence of Suraiya; 6 'Dil Dance Maare Re': Bollywoodisation of the Indian Folk Dance Forms; 7 The Systems Model of Creativity and Indian Film: A Study of Two Young Music Directors from Kerala, India; Section IV: Bollywood's Other(s): Sexuality, B Movie, Queerness; 8 Sugar and Spice: The Golden Age of the Hindi Movie Vamps, 1960s-1970s
9 Popular Forms, Altering Normativities: Queer Buddies in Contemporary Mainstream Hindi Cinema10 Hinglish Cinema: The Confluence of East and West; 11 The Ramsay Chronicles: Non-normative Sexualities in Purana Mandir and Bandh Darwaza; 12 Bollywood's Encounters with the Third Kind: A Critical Catalogue of Hindi Science Fiction Films; Section V: Bollywood's Other, India's Other; 13 Death Becomes Her: Bombay Cinema, Nation and Kashmir: In Conversation with the Desire Machine Collective, Guwahati; Afterword; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
How do we define the globalized cinema and media cultures of Bollywood in an age when it has become part of the cultural diplomacy of an emerging superpower? Bollywood and Its Other(s) explores the aesthetic-philosophical questions of the other through, for example, discussions on Indian diaspora's negotiations with national identity.
Ethnology—Asia.
Motion pictures—History.
Motion pictures—Asia.
Motion pictures and television.
Communication.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Asian Culture.
Film History.
Asian Cinema and TV.
Screen Studies.
Media Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.