Reframing Bollywood [electronic resource] : theories of popular Hindi cinema / Ajay Gehlawat.

Electronic resources
http://catalog.berklee.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=340336 - NetLibrary
Record details
- ISBN: 9788132105947 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 813210594X (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 165 p.)
- Publisher: New Delhi, India ; SAGE Publications, 2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Available through EBSCO |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Summary, etc.: | 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 |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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