Bollywood Cinema

Temples of Desire
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-93014-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 619 g

India is home to Bollywood - the largest film industry in the world. Movie theaters are said to be the "temples of modern India," with Bombay producing nearly 800 films per year that are viewed by roughly 11 million people per day. In Bollywood Cinema, Vijay Mishra argues that Indian film production and reception is shaped by the desire for national community and a pan-Indian popular culture. Seeking to understand Bollywood according to its own narrative and aesthetic principles and in relation to a global film industry, he views Indian cinema through the dual methodologies of postcolonial studies and film theory. Mishra discusses classics such as Mother India (1957) and Devdas (1935) and recent films including Ram Lakhan (1989) and Khalnayak (1993), linking their form and content to broader issues of national identity, epic tradition, popular culture, history, and the implications of diaspora.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mishra, Vijay

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Filmindustrie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface A Note on Transliteration 1. Inventing Bombay Cinema 2. Melodramatic Staging 3. The Texts of Mother India 4. Auteurship and the Lure of Romance 5. The Actor as Parallel Text: Amitabh Bachchan 6 Segmenting/Analyzing Two Foundational Texts 7 Cinema After Ayodhya: The Sublime Object of Fundamentalism 8. Cinema and Diasporic Desire Filmography Photographs Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Vijay Mishra is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. He is author of The Gothic Sublime.