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Basu, Anustup

Figurations in Indian Film

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Table of contents

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 Chiriakhana
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 Havelis and Hapless Heroes: Gender, Genre, and the Hindi Gothic Film
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 Shahenshah: Stardom and the Transnational Corporeality of Hrithik Roshan
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 Om Shanti Om
Bhaskar Sarkar

12. Bodies in Syncopation
Moinak Biswas

13. Between Violetta and Vasantasena Is Toulouse-Lautrec: Cinematic Avatars and Bollywood in Moulin Rouge!
Kirsten Strayer

14. Afterword
Meheli Sen, Anustup Basu

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Directing, Film History, Film and Television Studies, Genre, Media Studies

Editor
 
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

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