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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New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California :
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2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : reframing Bollywood
- Bollywood and its implied viewers
- the Bollywood song and dance, or making a culinary theatre from dung-cakes and dust : can the Bollywood film speak to the subaltern?
- Ho naa ho : the emergence of a homosexual subtext in Bollywood
- Usage problem : simulation and hyper-assimilation in the (crossover) Bollywood film
- Conclusion : travelling Bollywood.