Reframing Bollywood [electronic resource] : theories of popular Hindi cinema / Ajay Gehlawat.
This book combines multiple theoretical approaches to provide a fresh perspective on Bollywood and challenges the homogenizing tendencies in much of the ongoing scholarship in the field. It covers five areas of controversial theorization: the religious frame, the musical frame, the subaltern frame,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California :
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2010.
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| Summary: | This book combines multiple theoretical approaches to provide a fresh perspective on Bollywood and challenges the homogenizing tendencies in much of the ongoing scholarship in the field. It covers five areas of controversial theorization: the religious frame, the musical frame, the subaltern frame, the (hetero)sexual frame and the 'crossover' frame. By deconstructing each of these hegemonic paradigms, it reshapes the understanding of a Bollywood film and restructures its relationships with multiple disciplines including film and theatre studies, postcolonial studies, South Asian studies, queer studies, and transnational studies. This fusion of approaches is also representative of the larger objective of this work, namely, to destabilize Bollywood's position within any one sphere of reference and, instead, to illuminate how several realms of meaning are at play in its construction. The aim in doing so is to demonstrate how a variety of critical methodologies can enable a more comprehensive reading of the films making up this corpus. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 165 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155), filmography (pages 156-158) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9788132105947 813210594X 9781446270233 1446270238 9788132104728 8132104722 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 8, 2018) |