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Author | : Lalitha Gopalan |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1838715061 |
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A framework for understanding the distinctiveness of Indian cinema as a national cinema within a global context dominated by Hollywood is proposed by this book. With its sudden explosions into song-and-dance sequences, half-time intermissions and heavy traces of censorship, Indian cinema can be identified as a 'Cinema of Interruptions'. To the uninitiated viewer, brought up on the seamless linear plotting of Hollywood narrative, this unfamiliar tendency towards digression may appear random and superfluous, yet this book argues that such devices assist in the construction of a distinct visual and narrative time-space. In the hands of imaginative directors, the conventions of Indian cinema become opportunities for narrative play and personal expression in such films as 'Sholay' (1975), 'Nayakan' (1987), 'Parinda' (1989), 'Hathyar' (1981) and 'Hey Ram!' (1999). 'Cinema of Interruptions' places commercial Indian film within a global system of popular cinemas, but also points out its engagement with the dominant genre principles implemented by Western film. By focusing on the action-genre work of leading contemporary directors J.P. Dutta, Mani Ratnam, and Vidhu Vinod Chopra, brazen national style is shown to interact with international genre films to produce a hybrid form that reworks the gangster film, the western and the avenging woman genre. Central to this study is the relationship Indian cinema shares with its audience, and an understanding of the pleasures it offers the cinephile. In articulating this bond the book presents not only a fresh framework for understanding popular Indian cinema but also a contribution to film genre studies.
Author | : Lalitha Gopalan |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1838715053 |
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A framework for understanding the distinctiveness of Indian cinema as a national cinema within a global context dominated by Hollywood is proposed by this book. With its sudden explosions into song-and-dance sequences, half-time intermissions and heavy traces of censorship, Indian cinema can be identified as a 'Cinema of Interruptions'. To the uninitiated viewer, brought up on the seamless linear plotting of Hollywood narrative, this unfamiliar tendency towards digression may appear random and superfluous, yet this book argues that such devices assist in the construction of a distinct visual and narrative time-space. In the hands of imaginative directors, the conventions of Indian cinema become opportunities for narrative play and personal expression in such films as 'Sholay' (1975), 'Nayakan' (1987), 'Parinda' (1989), 'Hathyar' (1981) and 'Hey Ram!' (1999). 'Cinema of Interruptions' places commercial Indian film within a global system of popular cinemas, but also points out its engagement with the dominant genre principles implemented by Western film. By focusing on the action-genre work of leading contemporary directors J.P. Dutta, Mani Ratnam, and Vidhu Vinod Chopra, brazen national style is shown to interact with international genre films to produce a hybrid form that reworks the gangster film, the western and the avenging woman genre. Central to this study is the relationship Indian cinema shares with its audience, and an understanding of the pleasures it offers the cinephile. In articulating this bond the book presents not only a fresh framework for understanding popular Indian cinema but also a contribution to film genre studies.
Author | : Ranjani Mazumdar |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Motion picture industry |
ISBN | : 9781452913025 |
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Author | : Lalitha Gopalan |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 3030540960 |
Download Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.D., Kaul, Chauthi Koot, Cosmic Sex, and Gaali Beeja, to undercut the dominance of Bollywood focused film studies. Gopalan assembles films from Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Trivandrum, in addition to independent productions in Bombay cinema, as a way of privileging understudied works that deserve critical attention. The book uses close readings of films and a deep investigation of film style to draw attention to the advent of digital technologies while remaining fully cognizant of ‘the digital’ as a cryptic formulation for considering the sea change in the global circulation of film and finance. This dual focus on both the techno-material conditions of Indian cinema and the film narrative offers a fulsome picture of changing narratives and shifting genres and styles.
Author | : Lalitha Gopalan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Motion picture industry |
ISBN | : 9781905674923 |
Download The Cinema of India Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This work closely examines 24 landmark films.
Author | : Sudha Rajagopalan |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253220998 |
Download Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Understanding the Soviet public's love of Indian popular film
Author | : Rini Bhattacharya Mehta |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2011-06 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0857288970 |
Download Bollywood and Globalization Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.
Author | : Anustup Basu |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012-03-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0748686762 |
Download Bollywood in the Age of New Media Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a study of popular Indian cinema in the age of globalisation, new media, and metropolitan Hindu fundamentalism, focusing on the period between 1991 and 2004.
Author | : David Martin-Jones |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2011-02-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1441102205 |
Download Deleuze and World Cinemas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Shortlisted for the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Annual Book Award! Deleuze's Cinema books continue to cause controversy. Although they offer radical new ways of understanding cinema, his conclusions often seem strikingly Eurocentric. Deleuze and World Cinemas explores what happens when Deleuze's ideas are brought into contact with the films he did not discuss, those from Europe and the USA (from Georges Méliès to Michael Mann) and a range of world cinemas - including Bollywood blockbusters, Hong Kong action movies, Argentine melodramas and South Korean science fiction movies. These emergent encounters demonstrate the need for the constant adaptation and reinterpretation of Deleuze's findings if they are to have continued relevance, especially for cinema's contemporary engagement with the aftermath of the Cold War and the global dominance of neoliberal globalization.
Author | : Dimitris Eleftheriotis |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2006-03-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780824830854 |
Download Asian Cinemas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The West’s current fascination with Asian cinema must be viewed in the context of a complex and often problematic relationship between Western scholars, students, viewers, and Asian films. This book examines a number of detailed case studies (such as the films of Ozu, Bruce Lee, Hong Kong and Turkish cinema, Hindi melodramas, Godzilla films, Taiwanese directors, and Fifth Generation Chinese cinema) and uses them to investigate the limitations of Anglo–U.S. theoretical models and critical paradigms. By engaging readers with familiar areas of critical discourse (such as postcolonial criticism, "national cinema," "genre," "authorship," and "stardom") the book aims to introduce within such contexts the "unfamiliar" case studies that will be explored in depth and detail.