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'New Bollywood' has arrived, but its postmodern impulse often leaves film scholars reluctant to theorise its aesthetics. How do we define the style of a contemporary Bollywood film? Are Bollywood films just uninspired Hollywood rip-offs, or does their borrowing signal genuine innovation within the industry?
Applying postmodern concepts and locating postmodern motifs in key commercial Hindi films, this innovative study reveals how Indian cinema has changed in the 21st century. Equipping readers with an alternative method of reading contemporary Indian cinema, Bollywood and Postmodernism takes Indian film studies beyond the exhausted theme of diaspora, and exposes a new decade of aesthetic experimentation and textual appropriation in mainstream Bombay cinema.
A bold celebration of contemporary Bollywood texts, this book radically redefines Indian film and persuasively argues for its seriousness as a field of study in world cinema.
Contents
AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsList of Abbreviations for Film TitlesChapter 1: Introduction: The Bollywood EclipseChapter 2: Anti-Bollywood: Traditional Modes of Studying Indian CinemaChapter 3: Pedagogic Practices and Newer Approaches to Contemporary Bollywood CinemaChapter 4: Postmodernism and IndiaChapter 5: Postmodern BollywoodChapter 6: Indian cinema: A History of RepetitionChapter 7: Contemporary Bollywood RemakesChapter 8: Conclusion: A Bollywood Renaissance?BibliographyAppendix: Table of Bollywood RemakesFilmography
