Understanding Bollywood : The Grammar of Hindi Cinema.
Anjaria, Ulka.
Understanding Bollywood : The Grammar of Hindi Cinema. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (243 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What is Bollywood? -- Origins, size, and stature -- Language -- The question of realism -- The fan and the critic -- PART I -- 1. Structure -- Genre -- The moral universe -- Repetition and coincidence -- Character types -- Kinship -- Fictive kinship -- The lost-and-found plot -- 2. Love -- The lover -- Love and destiny -- Love as intoxication -- Madness, obsession, and self-annihilation -- Love as crossing borders -- Separation -- Erotics -- Love's enemy -- Losing faith in love -- Love after marriage -- Love these days -- 3. Song and dance -- Playback singing -- Circulation -- Understanding the song sequence: diegesis -- Song-and-dance sequences -- Lyrics -- Songs and emotions -- The love song -- Erotics -- Female sexual desire -- Prohibited desire -- Lust and the item number -- 4. Visual style -- Morality and visual style -- Color -- Costumes -- Locations -- Sets and the role of artifice -- Gestures and expressions -- The tableau and the fourth wall -- Angles, zooms, and pans -- Editing -- Montage -- Choreography and picturization -- Kitsch and visual style -- 5. Cinephilia -- Cinephilia and the star -- Fandom -- Double roles, twin plots, and cameos -- Film titles -- Intertextuality -- The affectionate parody -- The technology of filmmaking -- PART II -- 6. Nationalism -- The nation as mother -- Corruption and capitalism -- Police corruption and the vigilante -- The secular nation -- Partition and the question of Pakistan -- Kashmir and the margins of the nation -- Love and the nation -- The nation and the diaspora -- 7. Gender and sexuality -- Gender roles -- Homosociality and male friendship -- Female friendship -- Love triangles -- Relationships with no name -- Mothers and sons -- Queer Bollywood. PART III -- 8. The future of Bollywood -- The multiplex -- Bollywood no more? -- Hatke cinema -- Blockbusters -- Social reform films -- Questioning good and evil -- Female-centered films -- The impact of #MeToo -- New masculinities -- The future of Bollywood -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
This book offers an introduction to popular Hindi cinema, a genre that has a massive fan base but is often misunderstood by critics, providing insight on topics of political and social significance.
9781000347296
Motion pictures-India-History.
Electronic books.
PN1993.5.I8 .A553 2021
791.430954
Understanding Bollywood : The Grammar of Hindi Cinema. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (243 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What is Bollywood? -- Origins, size, and stature -- Language -- The question of realism -- The fan and the critic -- PART I -- 1. Structure -- Genre -- The moral universe -- Repetition and coincidence -- Character types -- Kinship -- Fictive kinship -- The lost-and-found plot -- 2. Love -- The lover -- Love and destiny -- Love as intoxication -- Madness, obsession, and self-annihilation -- Love as crossing borders -- Separation -- Erotics -- Love's enemy -- Losing faith in love -- Love after marriage -- Love these days -- 3. Song and dance -- Playback singing -- Circulation -- Understanding the song sequence: diegesis -- Song-and-dance sequences -- Lyrics -- Songs and emotions -- The love song -- Erotics -- Female sexual desire -- Prohibited desire -- Lust and the item number -- 4. Visual style -- Morality and visual style -- Color -- Costumes -- Locations -- Sets and the role of artifice -- Gestures and expressions -- The tableau and the fourth wall -- Angles, zooms, and pans -- Editing -- Montage -- Choreography and picturization -- Kitsch and visual style -- 5. Cinephilia -- Cinephilia and the star -- Fandom -- Double roles, twin plots, and cameos -- Film titles -- Intertextuality -- The affectionate parody -- The technology of filmmaking -- PART II -- 6. Nationalism -- The nation as mother -- Corruption and capitalism -- Police corruption and the vigilante -- The secular nation -- Partition and the question of Pakistan -- Kashmir and the margins of the nation -- Love and the nation -- The nation and the diaspora -- 7. Gender and sexuality -- Gender roles -- Homosociality and male friendship -- Female friendship -- Love triangles -- Relationships with no name -- Mothers and sons -- Queer Bollywood. PART III -- 8. The future of Bollywood -- The multiplex -- Bollywood no more? -- Hatke cinema -- Blockbusters -- Social reform films -- Questioning good and evil -- Female-centered films -- The impact of #MeToo -- New masculinities -- The future of Bollywood -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
This book offers an introduction to popular Hindi cinema, a genre that has a massive fan base but is often misunderstood by critics, providing insight on topics of political and social significance.
9781000347296
Motion pictures-India-History.
Electronic books.
PN1993.5.I8 .A553 2021
791.430954