Salaam Bollywood: Representations and Interpretations
β Scribed by Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 308
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Salaam Bollywood: introduction
Part I Histories: mainstream and alternative
1 Myths, markets and panics: Bombay cinema and the historical significance of the popularity of two Gujarati stage plays at the turn of the 20th century
2 The left encounter: progressive voices of nationalism and Indian cinema to the 1950s
3 Genre mixing as creative fabrication
4 What do the villains have? Indian cinemaβs villains in the 1970s
5 Inward bound: self-referentiality in Bombay cinema
Part II Bollywood dance: rereading history
6 Dancing to the songs: history of dance in popular Hindi films
7 Designing the song and dance sequences: Exploring Bollywoodβs cinematic creativity
8 The item girl: tradition and transgression in Bollywood dancing
Part III Changes in the cityscape, changes in cinema
9 Regionalist disjuncture in Bollywood: Dabangg and the consumerist cinema
10 Mourning and blood-ties: Macbeth in Mumbai
11 Black Friday: a screen history of the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts
12 The re-mapped dialectics of contemporary Indian cinema: Kahaani and That Girl in Yellow Boots
Part IV Other regions, other nations
13 Marking out the βSouthβ in/of Hindi cinema: an approach via remakes
14 Between solidarity and the stereotype: Chandni Chowk to China
15 The Khan Mania: universal appeal of superstar Shahrukh Khan in a post-globalised Bollywood era
16 Old wine in a new bottle: Bollywood films shot in Australia after 9/11
17 The way cinema was banished: the intervention of cinema studies in India
Index
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