Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas
London; New York: Routledge (2013), xv, 470 pp.
Contains figures, tables, index
Series: Routledge Handbooks
ISBN 978-0-415-67774-5 (hbk); 978-0-203-55605-4 (ebk)
"After years of marginalization by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the center of world cinema in a comparatively short space of time. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars in the field, this Handbook looks at the complex reasons for this remarkable journey. Combining an historical and thematic approach, the Handbook discusses how Indian cinemas need to be understood in their historical unfolding as well as their complex relationships to social, economic, cultural, political, ideological, aesthetic, technical and institutional discourses. The thematic section provides an up-to-date critical narrative on diverse topics such as audience, censorship, film distribution, film industry, diaspora, sexuality, film music and nationalism. The Handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge survey of Indian cinemas, discussing Popular, Parallel/New Wave and Regional cinemas as well as the spectacular rise of Bollywood." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction / K. Moti Gokulsing and Wimal Dissanayake, 1
PART I: HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
2 From cultural backwardness to the age of imitation: An essay in film history / M. Madhava Prasad, 7
3 The Indian New Wave / Ira Bhaskar, 19
4 REGIONAL CINEMAS
4.1 'Bengali' cinema: Its making and unmaking / Sharmistha Gooptu, 37
4.2 Assamese cinema: Dreams, reality and dichotomies / Manoj Barpujari, 51
4.3 Odia cinema at seventy-five / Shyamhari Chakra, 63
4.4 Marathi cinema: The exile, the factory and fame / Amrit Gangar, 72
4.5 Gujarati cinema: Stories of sant, sati, shethani and sparks so few / Amrit Gangar, 88
4.6 Matriliny to masculinity: Performing modernity and gender in Malayalam cinema / Meena T. Pillai, 102
4.7 Kannada cinema and Princely Mysore / M.K. Raghavendra, 115
4.8 The star-politicians of Tamil Nadu: The origin and emergence / S. Theodore Baskaran, 127
4.9 Beyond the star: Telugu comedy films and realpolitik in Andhra Pradesh / Joe Christopher, 137
4.10 Mapping the invisible world of Bhojpuri cinema and its changing audience / Ratnakar Tripathy, 150
4.11 From Lahore to Bombay … to Vancouver: The checkered journey of Punjabi cinema / Prabhjot Parmar, 162
PART II: THEMES AND PERSPECTIVES
5 The evolution of representing female sexuality in Hindi cinema 1991-2010 / Shoma A. Chatterji, 179
6 Queer times in Bollywood / Rama Srinivasan, 193
7 The scale of diasporic cinema: Negotiating national and transnational cultural citizenship / Jigna Desai, 206
8 The shifting terrains of nationalism and patriotism in Indian cinemas / Vijay Devadas, 218
9 Digitizing the national imaginary: Technology and hybridization in Hindi film songs of the post-liberalization period / Aniruddha Dutta, 231
10 Trends in Hindi film music with special reference to socioeconomic and political changes / Pankaj Rag, 246
11 Music in mainstream Indian cinema / Premendra Mazumder, 257
12 Scriptwriting: In and out of the box / Anil Zankar, 269
13 The fictions of science and cinema in India / Raminder Kaur, 282
14 Film censorship in India: Deconstructing an incongruity / Someswar Bhowmik, 297
15 Advertising and marketing of Indian cinema / Lynne Ciochetto, 311
PART III: THE BUSINESS OF INDIAN CINEMAS
16 Film distribution: The changing landscape / Ravi Gupta, 327
17 Corporatization and the Hindi film industry / Tejaswini Ganti, 337
18 Indian cinemas: Acknowledging property rights / Amir Ullah Khan, 351
19 Foundations, movements and dissonant images: Documentary film and its ambivalent relations to the nation state / Nicole Wolf, 360
PART IV: CINEMA HALLS AND AUDIENCES
20 Active audiences and the experience of cinema / Lakshmi Srinivas, 377
21 Hindi film audiences outside South Asia / Shakuntala Banaji, 391
22 Cinema as social space: The case of the multiplex / Adrian Athique, 402
23 Virtual darshan: Social networking and virtual communities in the Hindi film context / Steven Baker, 415
24 Conclusion / K. Moti Gokulsing and Wimal Dissanayake, 427
PART I: HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
2 From cultural backwardness to the age of imitation: An essay in film history / M. Madhava Prasad, 7
3 The Indian New Wave / Ira Bhaskar, 19
4 REGIONAL CINEMAS
4.1 'Bengali' cinema: Its making and unmaking / Sharmistha Gooptu, 37
4.2 Assamese cinema: Dreams, reality and dichotomies / Manoj Barpujari, 51
4.3 Odia cinema at seventy-five / Shyamhari Chakra, 63
4.4 Marathi cinema: The exile, the factory and fame / Amrit Gangar, 72
4.5 Gujarati cinema: Stories of sant, sati, shethani and sparks so few / Amrit Gangar, 88
4.6 Matriliny to masculinity: Performing modernity and gender in Malayalam cinema / Meena T. Pillai, 102
4.7 Kannada cinema and Princely Mysore / M.K. Raghavendra, 115
4.8 The star-politicians of Tamil Nadu: The origin and emergence / S. Theodore Baskaran, 127
4.9 Beyond the star: Telugu comedy films and realpolitik in Andhra Pradesh / Joe Christopher, 137
4.10 Mapping the invisible world of Bhojpuri cinema and its changing audience / Ratnakar Tripathy, 150
4.11 From Lahore to Bombay … to Vancouver: The checkered journey of Punjabi cinema / Prabhjot Parmar, 162
PART II: THEMES AND PERSPECTIVES
5 The evolution of representing female sexuality in Hindi cinema 1991-2010 / Shoma A. Chatterji, 179
6 Queer times in Bollywood / Rama Srinivasan, 193
7 The scale of diasporic cinema: Negotiating national and transnational cultural citizenship / Jigna Desai, 206
8 The shifting terrains of nationalism and patriotism in Indian cinemas / Vijay Devadas, 218
9 Digitizing the national imaginary: Technology and hybridization in Hindi film songs of the post-liberalization period / Aniruddha Dutta, 231
10 Trends in Hindi film music with special reference to socioeconomic and political changes / Pankaj Rag, 246
11 Music in mainstream Indian cinema / Premendra Mazumder, 257
12 Scriptwriting: In and out of the box / Anil Zankar, 269
13 The fictions of science and cinema in India / Raminder Kaur, 282
14 Film censorship in India: Deconstructing an incongruity / Someswar Bhowmik, 297
15 Advertising and marketing of Indian cinema / Lynne Ciochetto, 311
PART III: THE BUSINESS OF INDIAN CINEMAS
16 Film distribution: The changing landscape / Ravi Gupta, 327
17 Corporatization and the Hindi film industry / Tejaswini Ganti, 337
18 Indian cinemas: Acknowledging property rights / Amir Ullah Khan, 351
19 Foundations, movements and dissonant images: Documentary film and its ambivalent relations to the nation state / Nicole Wolf, 360
PART IV: CINEMA HALLS AND AUDIENCES
20 Active audiences and the experience of cinema / Lakshmi Srinivas, 377
21 Hindi film audiences outside South Asia / Shakuntala Banaji, 391
22 Cinema as social space: The case of the multiplex / Adrian Athique, 402
23 Virtual darshan: Social networking and virtual communities in the Hindi film context / Steven Baker, 415
24 Conclusion / K. Moti Gokulsing and Wimal Dissanayake, 427
