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For those who think, read, teach, and write about Bollywood, this book is the release of the year!  They are the ‘stars’ who sit behind the camera and create magic between ‘Action’ and ‘Cut’. Meet the directors of New Age cinema who with their themes, characteristic styles, and masterful storytelling are bridging the gap between commerce and content, commercial and art-house cinema.  This book introduces you to the films they have made and provides a critical analysis of their craft, while remaining grounded in cinematic and popular culture theories. It shows the distinct ways in which they have handled issues of gender, urban culture, and social inequality.  

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Author:   Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan ,  Vimal Mohan John
Publisher:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Imprint:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9789386062390

ISBN 10:   9386062399
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   20 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Rajinder Dudrah Acknowledgements Introduction by Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan Part I: Cinema of Glamour and Celebration: The Post-Liberalization Bollywood Auteur Main Hoon Farah: The Choreographer as Auteur Ajay Gehlawat Mansoor Khan: Narrative and Aesthetic Impulses of a Director in ‘Self’ Exile Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan Farhan Akhtar: Stardom of the Poster Boy of ‘New’ Hindi Cinema Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan Aditya Chopra’s ‘Glamorous Realism’ Manjunath Pendakur Authorship, Industry, and the Intermedial Relay: The Films of Vidhu Vinod Chopra Sudhir Mahadevan Rajkumar Hirani: The Outsider Baradwaj Rangan Sanjay Leela Bhansali: In the Realm of Innovative Cinematic Experiences Varsha Panjwani Part II: Cinema of Commentaries and Interventions: History, Politics, and Society in Bollywood In the Morbid Interregnum: Vishal Bhardwaj’s Realist Aesthetic and the Neoliberal Imaginary Jyotsna Kapur and Soumik Pal Post-colonial Transgression in Deepa Mehta’s Feminist Quartet Alka Kurian Sounding Dystopia: Anurag Kashyap’s Films and Relocation of Popular Tropes Madhuja Mukherjee Globalization, Reflexivity, and Genre in Zoya Akhtar’s films Nandana Bose Urban Dreams: Sudhir Mishra’s Representations of Social and Political Change Pavithra Narayanan and Clare Wilkinson Ashutosh Gowariker: Narrativizing the ‘Nation’ Tutun Mukherje Madhur Bhandarkar and the New Bollywood Social Ulka Anjaria Part III: Gendered Cinema: Bollywood’s Women, Gender Politics, and Representation Finding Femininity: Homi Adajania and Representations of Urban Womanhood Sharanya Gender Politics and Small-town India: The Cinema of Abhishek Chaubey Krupa Shandilya Women in the Dark World: Sriram Raghavan and Hindi Film Noir Swetha Sridhar 18. ‘There Is No Greater Joy than Telling a Story One Believes In’—Our Brother Onir Nandini Bhattacharya Location and Agency in Crafting Habib Faisal’s Authorship Auteur Monika Mehta Glossary Filmography Bibliography Index

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A well-curated collection of insightful essays celebrating important new voices in contemporary Hindi cinema… [The editors] have embarked on a praiseworthy academic exercise, which chronicles the rise of several exciting new film-makers who have transformed Bollywood in many ways by bravely taking the road not taken.   -- Frontline, 5 January 2018

A well-curated collection of insightful essays celebrating important new voices in contemporary Hindi cinema... [The editors] have embarked on a praiseworthy academic exercise, which chronicles the rise of several exciting new film-makers who have transformed Bollywood in many ways by bravely taking the road not taken. -- Frontline, 5 January 2018

A well-curated collection of insightful essays celebrating important new voices in contemporary Hindi cinema... [The editors] have embarked on a praiseworthy academic exercise, which chronicles the rise of several exciting new film-makers who have transformed Bollywood in many ways by bravely taking the road not taken. -- Frontline, 5 January 2018

Author Information

Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. Her interests include film studies, drama and popular culture. She has a PhD in American Drama, was the recipient of the Canadian Faculty Enrichment Programme fellowship in 2009 and was attached to Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. She has published over 30 articles in academic journals of repute, including Cambridge, Oxford, Routledge and SAGE. She edited Postliberalization Indian Novels in English: Politics of Global Reception and Awards (2013). She is the organizer of Imaging Cinema, a popular film workshop (2010–2012 and 2014) at IIT Madras. Vimal Mohan John has a PhD in film studies from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. He was on an extended fellowship that was awarded to him by the department upon completion of his PhD. His work concerns study of the auteurial practices of film directors and how they mediate gender, cultures and representations. Apart from presenting papers at various national and international conferences, he also publishes academic papers. He teaches as Assistant Professor, Department of English, St. Berchmans College, Kottayam (Kerala).

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