Reframing Bollywood : theories of popular Hindi cinema /

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,...

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Main Author: Gehlawat, Ajay
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.