基本説明
The twelve essays track the intra-national and trans-national movements of Bollywood cinema.
Full Description
This volume brings together a group of international scholars to analyze the globalized networks of Indian cinema. It provides a critique of a common scholarly tendency in the field of popular cinema of defining Indian films in terms of their modernity and desire for nationhood. Bollyworld argues that Indian cinema cannot be understood in terms of this national paradigm, and must be more properly described as a field of visual and cultural production that interlinks sites as diverse as the cosmopolitan city of Bombay, the provincial region of Maharashtra, and countries such as Nigeria, Germany, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
The twelve essays track the intra-national and trans-national movements of Bollywood cinema. Divided into three sections, the first discusses the technology and aesthetics of India's commercial cinema as it developed in the period that spans the silents from 1913 to the advent of the talkies in 1931.
The second section studies these films as 'local', 'intertextual' manifestations of globalization and highlights the changes in post-liberalization cinema. Against the backdrop of economic liberalization, the institutionalization of multiculturalism and a strong voice of migrant Indian populations, the third section focuses on the overseas reception of Indian films.
Contents
PART ONE: TOPOGRAPHIES
Not Quite (Pearl) White - Rosie Thomas
Fearless Nadia, Queen of the Stunts
Figures of Locality and Tradition - Kajri Jain
Commercial Cinema and the Networks of Visual
Icons and Events - Gayatri Chatterjee
Reinventing Visual Construction in Cinema in India
Reflected Readings in Available Light - Shuddhabrata Sengupta
Cameramen in the Shadows of Hindi Cinema
PART TWO: TRANS-ACTIONS
Sexuality, Sensuality and Belonging - Geetanjali Gangoli
Representations of the `Anglo-Indian' and the `Western' Woman in Hindi Cinema
`Fight Club' - Koushik Banerje
Aesthetics, Hybridisation and the Construction of Rogue Masculinities in Sholay and Deewar
The Consumable Hero of Globalised India - Sudhanva Deshpande
PART THREE: TRAVELS
The Scattered Homelands of the Migrant - Christiane Brosius
Bollyworld through the Diasporic Lens
In Search of the Diasporic Self - Thomas Blom Hansen
Bollywood in South Africa
Belonging and Respect Notions vis-à-vis Modern East Indians - Narmala Halstead
Hindi Movies in the Guyanese East Indian Diaspora
Bandiri Music, Globalisation and Urban Experience in Nigeria - Brian Larkin
Cruising on the Vilayeti Bandwagon - Raminder Kaur
Diasporic Representations and Reception of Popular Indian Movies
