ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF INDIAN CINEMAS
Edited by K. Moti Gokulsing and Wimal Dissanayake
Editorial Assistant Rohit K. Dasgupta
Routledge R Taylor &. Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK CONTENTS
List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements
1 Introduction K. Moti Gokulsing and Wimal Dissanayake
PART I Historical analysis
2 From cultural backwardness to the age of imitation: An in film history M. Madhava Prasad
3 The Indian New Wave Ira Bhaskar
4 Regional cinemas
4.1 'Bengali' cinema: Its making and unmaking Sharmistha Gooptu
4.2 Assamese cinema: Dreams, reality and dichotomies Manoj Barpujari
4.3 Odia cinema at seventy-five Shyamhari Chakra Contents
4.4 Marathi cinema: The exile, the factory and fame 72 Amrit Qangar
4.5 Gujarati cinema: Stories of sant, sati, shethani and sparks so few 88 Amrit Gangar
4.6 Matriliny to masculinity: Performing modernity and gender in Malayalam cinema 102 Meena T. Pillai
4.7 Kannada cinema and Princely Mysore 115 M.K. Raghavendra
4.8 The star-politicians of Tamil Nadu: The origin and emergence 127 S. Theodore Baskaran
4.9 Beyond the star: Telugu comedy films and realpolitik in Andhra Pradesh 137 Joe Christopher
4.10 Mapping the invisible world of Bhojpuri cinema and its changing audience 150 Ratnakar Tripathy
4.11 From Lahore to Bombay ... to Vancouver: The checkered journey of Punjabi cinema 162 Prabhjot Parmar
PART II Themes and perspectives 177
5 The evolution of representing female sexuality in Hindi cinema 1991-2010 179 Shoma A. Chatterji
6 Queer times in Bollywood 193 Rama Srinivasan
7 The scale of diasporic cinema: Negotiating national and transnational cultural citizenship 206 Jigna Desai
8 The shifting terrains of nationalism and patriotism in Indian cinemas 218 Vijay Devadas
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9 Digitizing the national imaginary: Technology and hybridization in Hindi film songs of the post-liberalization period 231 Aniruddha Dutta
10 Trends in Hindi film music with special reference to socioeconomic and political changes 246 Pankaj Rag
11 Music in mainstream Indian cinema 257 Premendra Mazumder
12 Scriptwriting: In and out of the box 269 Anil Zankar
13 The fictions of science and cinema in India 282 Raminder Kaur
14 Film censorship in India: Deconstructing an incongruity 297 Someswar Bhowmik
15 Advertising and marketing of Indian cinema 311 Lynne Ciochetto
PART III The business of Indian cinemas 325
16 Film distribution: The changing landscape 327 Ravi Gupta
17 Corporatization and the Hindi film industry 337 Tejaswini Ganti
18 Indian cinemas: Acknowledging property rights 351 Amir Ullah Khan
19 Foundations, movements and dissonant images: Documentary film and its ambivalent relations to the nation state 360 Nicole Wolf
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PART IV Cinema halls and audiences 375
20 Active audiences and the experience of cinema 377 Lakshmi Srinivas
21 Hindi film audiences outside South Asia 391 Shakuntala Banaji
22 Cinema as social space: The case of the multiplex 402 Adrian Athique
23 Virtual darshan: Social networking and virtual communities in the Hindi film context 415 Steven Baker
24 Conclusion 427 K. Moti Gokulsing and Wimal Dissanayake
Index 431
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