Posts Tagged ‘ Hindi cinema ’

Film-School Education in India: Negation and Assimilation

October 8, 2015
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Film-School Education in India: Negation and Assimilation

Kiranmayi Indraganti offers an insider view of production training in India's film schools, addressing the dynamic negotiation of dominant industry styles and arthouse realism against a backdrop of fast-globalizing cultures and audiences.
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Bollywood’s Superhero Genre: Transnational Appropriations, Labor and Referentiality

September 24, 2015
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Bollywood’s Superhero Genre: Transnational Appropriations, Labor and Referentiality

Nandana Bose unmasks the postmillennial Bollywood superhero to reveal a bricolage of transnational intertexts.
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Hindi Cinema: Coming Soon To A Tweet Near You

August 13, 2015
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Hindi Cinema: Coming Soon To A Tweet Near You

Social media and Twitter-happy stars are changing the way Hindi films are promoted in India. (With this caveat: for English speakers only.) Sripana Ray looks at film prefiguration targeting India's urban middle class.
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Communal Politics and the Tragic Love Narrative in Hindi Cinema

July 14, 2014
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Communal Politics and the Tragic Love Narrative in Hindi Cinema

As tragic romances, Ishaqzaade and Ram-Leela act as contemporary parables for India’s destabilized economic, political and cultural integrity.
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