Figurations in Indian film / edited by Meheli Sen, Rutgers University, USA, and Anustup Basu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Other author Sen, Meheli, 1976-
Other author Basu, Anustup.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, [England] ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Descriptionx, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Contents Introduction: Meheli Sen -- Part 1. Political and typological figures -- Sensate outlaws: the recursive social bandit in Indian popular cultures / Bishnupriya Ghosháá -- What happened to Khadi? dress and costume in Bombay cinema / Anupama Kapse -- Configuring the other: the detective and the real in Satyajit Ray's Chiriakhana / Gautam Basu Thakur -- Part 2. Generic mutations -- Diverting diseases / M. Madhava Prasad -- Nevla as Dracula: figurations of the tantric as monster in the Hindi horror film / Usha Iyer -- Haunted havelis and hapless heroes: gender, genre and the Hindi gothic film / Meheli Sen -- Part 3. Star figures -- "The face that launched a thousand ships": Helen and public femininity in Hindi film / Anustup Basu -- From Superman to Shahenshah: stardom and the transfigurative body of Hrithik Roshan / Nandana Bose -- Con-figurations: the body as world in Bollywood stardom / Sumita S. Chakravarty -- Part 4. Figuring (out) new Bollywood -- Metafiguring Bollywood: (Brecht after Om Shanti Om) / Bhaskar Sarkar -- Bodies in syncopation / Moinak Biswas -- Between Violetta and Vasantasena is Toulouse-Lautrec: cinematic avatars and Bollywood in Moulin Rouge! / Kirsten Strayer -- Afterword: Anustup Basu.
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LCCN 2013044382
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