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Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema » Read Now
by Tejaswini Ganti. 254 pgs.

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In Bollywood , anthropologist and film scholar Tejaswini Ganti provides a guide to the cultural, social and political significance of Hindi cinema, outlining the history and structure of the Bombay film industry, and the development of popular Hindi filmmaking since the 1930s.'Bollywood' is the...
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In Bollywood , anthropologist and film scholar Tejaswini Ganti provides a guide to the cultural, social and political significance of Hindi cinema, outlining the history and structure of the Bombay film industry, and the development of popular Hindi filmmaking since the 1930s.'Bollywood' is the dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995). Characterised by music, dance routines, melodrama, lavish production values and an emphasis on stars and spectacle, Bollywood films have met with box-office success and enthusiastic audiences from India to West Africa to Russia, and throughout the English-speaking world.Providing information and commentary on the key players in Bollywood, including composers, directors and stars, as well as material from current filmmakers themselves, the areas covered in Bollywood include:* history of Indian cinema* main themes and characteristics of Hindi cinema* significant films, directors and stars* production and distribution of Bollywood films* interviews with actors, directors and screenwriters.
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Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film » Read Now
by Jigna Desai. 280 pgs.

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Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai explores the hybrid cinema of the "Brown Atlantic" through a close look at films in English from and about...
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Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai explores the hybrid cinema of the "Brown Atlantic" through a close look at films in English from and about South Asian diasporas in the United States, Canada, and Britain, including such popular films as My Beautiful Laundrette, Fire, Monsoon Wedding, and Bend it Like Beckham.
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The Cinematic Imagination: Indian Popular Films as Social History » Read Now
by Jyotika Virdi. 258 pgs.

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India produces more films than any other country and these works are consumed by non-Western cultures in Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and by Indian communities across the world. This text focuses on how such a dominant media configures the 'nation' in post-Independence Hindi cinema.
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Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India » Read Now
by Purnima Mankekar. 434 pgs.

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Bollywood, in Contemporary Review » Read Now
by Alex Ninian. 6 pgs.

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Rethinking Third Cinema (Chap. 9 "Rethinking Indian Popular Cinema: Towards Newer Frames of Understanding") » Read Now
by Wimal Dissanayake, Anthony R. Guneratne. 244 pgs.

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This important anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory, and the cinema practice of developing and postcolonial nations. The 'Third Cinema' movement called for a politicised film-making practice in Africa, Asia and Latin America, one which would take on board issues of race...
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This important anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory, and the cinema practice of developing and postcolonial nations. The 'Third Cinema' movement called for a politicised film-making practice in Africa, Asia and Latin America, one which would take on board issues of race, class, religion, and national integrity. The films which resulted from the movement, from directors such as Ousmane Sembene, Satyajit Ray and Nelson Pereira dos Santos, are among the most culturally signficant, politically sophisticated and frequently studied films of the 1960s and 1970s. However, despite the contemporary popularity and critical attention enjoyed by films from Asia and Latin America in particular, Third Cinema and Third Cinema theory appears to have lost its momentum. Rethinking Third Cinema seeks to bring Third Cinema and Third Cinema theory back into the critical spotlight. The contributors address the most difficult and challenging questions Third Cinema poses, suggesting new methodologies and redirections of existing ones. Crucially, they also re-examine the entire phenomenon of film-making in a fast-vanishing 'Third World', with case studies of the cinemas of India, Iran and Hong Kong, among others.
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Traditional Content and Narrative Structure in the Hindi Commercial Cinema, in Asian Folklore Studies » Read Now
by Gregory D. Booth. 22 pgs.

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Framing the Feminine: Diasporic Readings of Gender in Popular Indian Cinema, in Women's Studies in Communication » Read Now
by Anjali Ram. 28 pgs.

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Portrayals of Sexual Violence in Popular Hindi Films, 1997-99, in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research » Read Now
by Mary Beth Oliver, Srividya Ramasubramanian. 10 pgs.

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Reverence, Rape--and Then Revenge: Popular Hindi Cinema's 'Woman's Film,' in Screen » Read Now
by Jyotika Virdi. 21 pgs.

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The Curse of Globalised Culture: The Fall of Indian Cinema Foretold, in Futures » Read Now
by Ashok Raj. 13 pgs.

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Culture and Global Change (Chap. 24 "Bollywood versus Hollywood: Battle of the Dream Factories") » Read Now
by Tim Allen, Tracey Skelton. 322 pgs.

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Culture and Global Change presents a comprehensive introduction to the cultural aspects of third world development. It contains 25 chapters from leading writers in the field which each offer their own particular take on "culture" and explore the significance and meaning of cultural issues for...
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Culture and Global Change presents a comprehensive introduction to the cultural aspects of third world development. It contains 25 chapters from leading writers in the field which each offer their own particular take on "culture" and explore the significance and meaning of cultural issues for different people in different parts of the contemporary world. With chapters dealing with the importance of "Third World" cultures but also with changes in Russia, Japan, the USA and the UK, this book considers the relationship between culture and development within a truly global context.
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The Media of Diaspora (Chap. 2 "Nation, Nostalgia and Bollywood: In the Tracks of a Twice-Displaced Community") » Read Now
by Karim H. Karim. 238 pgs.

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The Media of Diaspora examines how diasporic communities have used new communications media to maintain and develop community ties on a local and transnational level. This collection of essays from a wide range of different diasporic contexts is a unique contribution to the field.
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Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies (Chap. 15 "Queer Bollywood, or 'I'm the Player, You're the Naive One': Patterns of Sexual Subversion in Recent Indian Popular Cinema") » Read Now
by Matthew Tinkcom, Amy Villarejo. 400 pgs.

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Keyframes introduces the study of popular cinema of Hollywood and beyond and responds to the transformative effect of cultural studies on film studies.The contributors rethink contemporary film culture using ideas and concerns from feminism, queer theory, 'race' studies, critiques of nationalism...
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Keyframes introduces the study of popular cinema of Hollywood and beyond and responds to the transformative effect of cultural studies on film studies.The contributors rethink contemporary film culture using ideas and concerns from feminism, queer theory, 'race' studies, critiques of nationalism, colonialism and post-colonialism, the cultural economies of fandom, spectator theory, and Marxism. Combining a film studies focus on the film industry, production and technology with a cultural studies analysis of consumption and audiences, Keframes demonstrates the breadth of approaches now available for understanding popular cinema. Subjects addressed include:* Studying Ripley and the 'Alien' films* Pedagogy and Political Correctness in Martial Arts cinema* Judy Garland fandom on the net* Stardom and serial fantasies: Thomas Harris's 'Hannibal'* Tom Hanks and the globalization of stars* Queer Bollywood* Jackie Chan and the Black connection* '12 Monkeys', postmodernism and urban space.
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Shakespeare, the Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video, and DVD (Chap. 16 "Shakespeare and Asia in Postdiasporic Cinemas: Spin-Offs and Citations of the Plays from Bollywood to Hollywood") » Read Now
by Lynda E. Boose, Richard Burt. 340 pgs.

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Following on from the phenomenally successful Shakespeare, The Movie , this volume brings together an invaluable new collection of essays on cinematic Shakespeares in the 1990s and beyond. Shakespeare, The Movie II :*focuses for the first time on the impact of postcolonialism, globalization and...
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Following on from the phenomenally successful Shakespeare, The Movie , this volume brings together an invaluable new collection of essays on cinematic Shakespeares in the 1990s and beyond. Shakespeare, The Movie II :*focuses for the first time on the impact of postcolonialism, globalization and digital film on recent adaptations of Shakespeare;*takes in not only American and British films but also adaptations of Shakespeare in Europe and in the Asian diapora;*explores a wide range of film, television, video and DVD adaptations from Almereyda's Hamlet to animated tales, via Baz Luhrmann, Kenneth Branagh, and 1990s' Macbeths, to name but a few;*offers fresh insight into the issues surrounding Shakespeare on film, such as the interplay between originals and adaptations, the appropriations of popular culture, the question of spectatorship, and the impact of popularization on the canonical status of "the Bard."Combining three key essays from the earlier collection with exciting new work from leading contributors, Shakespeare, The Movie II offers sixteen fascinating essays. It is quite simply a must-read for any student of Shakespeare, film, media or cultural studies.
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Cinema and Nation (Chap. 14 "Fragmenting the Nation: Images of Terrorism in Indian Popular Cinema") » Read Now
by Mette Hjort, Scott Mackenzie. 333 pgs.

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Ideas of national identity, nationalism and transnationalism are now a central feature of contemporary film studies, as well as primary concerns for film-makers themselves. Embracing a range of national cinemas including Scotland, Poland, France, Turkey, Indonesia, India, Germany and America...
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Ideas of national identity, nationalism and transnationalism are now a central feature of contemporary film studies, as well as primary concerns for film-makers themselves. Embracing a range of national cinemas including Scotland, Poland, France, Turkey, Indonesia, India, Germany and America, Cinema and Nation considers the ways in which film production and reception are shaped by ideas of national belonging and examines the implications of globalisation for the concept of national cinema.In the first three Parts, contributors explore sociological approaches to nationalism, challenge the established definitions of 'national cinema', and consider the ways in which states - from the old Soviet Union to contemporary Scotland - aim to create a national culture through cinema. The final two Parts address the diverse strategies involved in the production of national cinema and consider how images of the nation are used and understood by audiences both at home and abroad.
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