Basu, Anustup
Figurations in Indian Film
1. Introduction
Meheli Sen
Part I. Political and Typological Figures
2. Sensate Outlaws: The Recursive Social Bandit in Indian Popular Cultures
Bishnupriya Ghosh
3. What Happened to Khadi? Dress and Costume in Bombay Cinema
Anupama Kapse
4. Configuring the Other: The Detective and the Real in Satyajit Ray’s
Gautam Basu Thakur
Part II. Generic Mutations
5. Diverting Diseases
M. Madhava Prasad
6. Nevla as Dracula: Figurations of the Tantric as Monster in the Hindi Horror Film
Usha Iyer
7. Haunted
Meheli Sen
Part III. Star Figures
8. “The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships”: Helen and Public Femininity in Hindi Film
Anustup Basu
9. From Superman to
Nandana Bose
10. Con-figurations: The Body as World in Bollywood Stardom
Sumita S. Chakravarty
Part IV. Figuring (out) New Bollywood
11. Metafiguring Bollywood: Brecht after
Bhaskar Sarkar
12. Bodies in Syncopation
Moinak Biswas
13. Between Violetta and Vasantasena Is Toulouse-Lautrec: Cinematic Avatars and Bollywood in
Kirsten Strayer
14. Afterword
Meheli Sen, Anustup Basu
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Directing, Film History, Film and Television Studies, Genre, Media Studies
- Editor
- Basu, Anustup
- Sen, Meheli
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 302 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137349781
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-33209-0