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Informationen zum Autor Vikrant Kishore is an academic, film-maker, journalist, photographer and currently Lecturer in Media at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Amit Sarwal is Honorary Associate Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia and Founding Convenor of the Australia–India Interdisciplinary Research Network. Parichay Patra is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Film and Screen Studies, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Klappentext This book traces the journey of popular Hindi cinema from 1913 to contemporary times when Bollywood has evolved as a part of India's cultural diplomacy. Avoiding a linear, developmental narrative, the book re-examines the developments through the ruptures in the course of cinematic history. The essays in the volume critically consider transformations of the Hindi film industry from its early days to its present self-referential mode, issues of gender, dance and choreography, Bombay cinema's negotiations with the changing cityscape and urbanisms, and concentrate on its multifarious regional, national and transnational implications in the 21st century. One of the most comprehensive volumes on Bollywood, this work presents an analytical overview of the multiple histories of popular cinema in India and will be useful to scholars and researchers interested in film and media studies, South Asian popular culture and modern India, as well as to cinephiles and general readers alike. Zusammenfassung This book traces the journey of popular Hindi cinema from 1913 to contemporary times when Bollywood has evolved as a part of India’s cultural diplomacy. Avoiding a linear, developmental narrative, the book re-examines the developments through the ruptures in the course of cinematic history. The essays in the volume critically consider transformations of the Hindi film industry from its early days to its present self-referential mode, issues of gender, dance and choreography, Bombay cinema’s negotiations with the changing cityscape and urbanisms, and concentrate on its multifarious regional, national and transnational implications in the 21st century. One of the most comprehensive volumes on Bollywood, this work presents an analytical overview of the multiple histories of popular cinema in India and will be useful to scholars and researchers interested in film and media studies, South Asian popular culture and modern India, as well as to cinephiles and general readers alike. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword . Introduction Part I. Histories: Mainstream and Alternative 1. Myths, Markets and Panics: Speculating about the Proto-Cinematic Historical Significance of the Popularity of Two Parsi Theatre Plays at the Turn of the Twentieth 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 Cinema’s Villains in the 1970s Hariprasad Athanickal 5. Inward Bound: Self-referentiality in Bombay Cinema Part II. Bollywood Dance: Re-reading History 6. Dancing to the Songs: History of Dance in Popular Hindi Films 7. Designing the Song and Dance Sequences: Exploring Bollywood’s Cinematic Creativity 8. The Item Girl: Tradition and Transgression in Bollywood Dancing Part III. Changes in the City Scape, 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 "South" in/of Hindi Cin...
