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The Asian cinema experience : styles, spaces, theory Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York: Routledge, 2013.
Call No: 756(5) TEOAuthor: Teo, Stephen Source: UKPlace: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2013PhysDes: xv, 269 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmSeries: Media, culture and social change in Asia ; 30Subject: INDIAN CINEMA ; CITY OF SADNESS, A [ ; JAPAN ; KOREA ; TAIWAN ; THAILAND ; SINGAPORE ; MALAYSIA ; IRAN ; BOLLYWOOD ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; ASIAN COUNTRIES ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES ; WORLD CINEMA ; BLOCKBUSTERS ; ANIMATION ; HORROR FILM ; GHOST FILMS ; EROTIC FILMS ; EROTIC FILMS. ASIA Summary: "This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of "Asian Cinema". It goes beyond existing work which provides a field survey of Asian cinema, probing more deeply into the field of Asian Cinema, arguing that Asian Cinema constitutes a separate pedagogical subject, and putting forward an alternative cinematic paradigm. The book covers "styles", including the works of classical Asian Cinema masters, and specific genres such as horror films, and Bollywood and Anime, two very popular modes of Asian Cinema; "spaces", including artistic use of space and perspective in Chinese cinema, geographic and personal space in Iranian cinema, the private "erotic space" of films from South Korea and Thailand, and the persistence of the family unit in the urban spaces of Asian big cities in many Asian films; and "concepts" such as Pan-Asianism, Orientalism, Nationalism and Third Cinema. The rise of Asian nations on the world stage has been coupled with a growing interest, both inside and outside Asia, of Asian culture, of which film is increasingly an indispensable component--this book provides a rich, insightful overview of what exactly constitutes Asian Cinema." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographic references and index; Includes filmographyISBN: 9781138815780Contents: pt. I Styles -- 1.Kurosawa and classical style in Asian Cinema -- 2.Satyajit Ray and the Indian sensitivity of affect -- 3.The historical blockbuster style -- 4.The abstract transnational style of anime -- 5.Asian horror and the ghost-story style -- 6.The `Bollywood' style -- pt. II Spaces -- 7.Space in Asian melodrama -- 8.Iranian cinema and inward space -- 9.Domestic space and the family in South Korean cinema -- 10.Erotic space in Asian films -- pt. III Theory -- 11.The world and Asian Cinema -- 12.Asian Cinema and other cinemas.
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Bollywood and its other(s) : towards new configurations / edited by Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra Houndmills. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Call No: 71(540) BOLAuthor: KIshore, Vikrant (ed.) ; Patra, Parichay (ed.) ; Sarwal, Amit (ed.) Source: US/UK/ATPlace: Houndmills. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New YorkPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2014PhysDes: xii, 229 pages ; 23 cmSubject: INDIA ; INDIA IN FILMS ; BOLLYWOOD ; INDIAN CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. INDIA ; THEORY ; DIASPORIC CINEMA ; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; SEX IN FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; AESTHETICS ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS Summary: "How do we define the globalized cinema and media cultures of Bollywood in an age when it has become part of the cultural diplomacy of an emerging superpower? Is it still an 'other' industry in a world dominated by American Cinemas? Bollywood and Its Other(s) aims to compensate for the lack of scholarly literature on Bollywood studies by opening up hitherto unexplored sites or sites that are in formation. One of the most comprehensive volumes on Bollywood so far, it focuses on the aesthetic-philosophical questions of the other, Indian diaspora's negotiations with national identity, alternative reading strategies/research methods, marginal genres (sci-fi, horror), marginal characters (flaneuse, vamps), marginal gender (non-normative sexualities), marginal cinema (Hindi avant-garde), marginal language (Hinglish), and marginal regions (the Kashmir valley). It intends to address film scholars, South Asian studies researchers, cinephiles and lay readers alike.- BOOK BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781137426499Donation: Senses of CinemaContents: -- list of figures -- notes on contributors -- introduction: Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra -- Section I Exploring the Other: Cinema, Aesthetics, Philosophy -- 1.Self, Other and Bollywood: The Evolution of the Hindi Film as a Site of Ambivalence / Dibyakusum Ray -- 2.Bombay Cinema's Aesthetic Other: Hindi Shastriya Cinema in Retrospect / Parichay Patra -- Section II Diaspora and the Formation of the Global Bollywood -- 3.Transgressing the Moral Universe: Bollywood and the Terrain of the Representable / Sarah A. Joshi -- 4.A Perfect Match: Entertainment and Excess of Cricket within the Diasporic Experience of Bollywood / Sanchari De and Manas Ghosh -- Section III The Musicality of Bollywood: Possibilities of Alternative Reading(s) -- 5.Hindi Popular Cinema and Its Peripheries: Of Female Singers, Performances and the Presence/Absence of Suraiya / Madhuja Mukherjee -- 6.'Dil Dance Maare Re': Bollywoodisation of the Indian Folk Dance Forms / Vikrant Kishore -- 7.The Systems Model of Creativity and Indian Film: A Study of Two Young Music Directors from Kerala, India / Phillip McIntyre, Bob Davis and Vikrant Kishore -- Section IV Bollywood's Other(s): Sexuality, B Movie, Queerness -- 8.Sugar and Spice: The Golden Age of the Hindi Movie Vamps, 1960s--1970s / Suneeti Rekhari -- 9.Popular Forms, Altering Normativities: Queer Buddies in Contemporary Mainstream Hindi Cinema / Aneeta Rajendran -- 10.Hinglish Cinema: The Confluence of East and West / Amit Sarwal -- 11.The Ramsay Chronicles: Non-normative Sexualities in Purana Mandir and Bandh Darwaza / Mithuraaj Dhusiya -- 12.Bollywood's Encounters with the Third Kind: A Critical Catalogue of Hindi Science Fiction Films / Sami Ahmad Khan -- Section V Bollywood's Other, India's Other -- 13.Death Becomes Her: Bombay Cinema, Nation and Kashmir: In Conversation with the Desire Machine Collective, Guwahati / Kaushik Bhaumik -- afterword: Anupam Sharma -- index --
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Bollywood in Australia : transnationalism and cultural production / edited by Andrew Hassam and Makarand Paranjape Crawley, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Publishing, 2010.
Call No: 408.3 (540/94) BOLAuthor: Hassam, Andrew (ed.) ; Paranjape, Makarand (ed.) Source: ATPlace: Crawley, Western AustraliaPublisher: University of Western Australia PublishingPubDate: 2010PhysDes: 192p. ; 24cmSubject: AUSTRALIA ; BOLLYWOOD ; INDIA ; INDIAN CINEMA ; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; SALAAM NAMASTE (II, Siddarth Anand, 2005) ; CHAK DE! INDIA (II, Shimit Amin, 2007) Summary: "The past decade has witnessed a steady increase in Australia’s awareness of India as a strategic and economic partner. Bollywood plays an important role in the increased dialogue between Australia and India.
Bollywood in Australia: Transnationalism and Cultural Production brings together scholars from India and Australia to explore the transnational impact of Bollywood on public spheres in Australia and to assess its contribution to Australian creative industries.
Countries of the West—Switzerland, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand—have gone out of their way to welcome Bollywood production teams, and Singapore and Bangkok are now using Bollywood to showcase an Asian modernity.
In an age when creative, information and services industries propel economic growth, Bollywood and its modalities of production, distribution and reception are seen as important players in global culture-industry networks."
--University of Western Australia webpage http://uwap.uwa.edu.au/books-and-authors/book/bollywood-in-australia-ebook/ISBN: 9781921401084Contents: -- Bollywood in Australia: introduction Andrew Hassam and Makarand Paranjape -- 1: the crossover audience: mediated multiculturalism and the Indian film Adrian Mabbott Athique -- 2: cultural encounters: the use and abuse of Bollywood in Australia Devika Goonewardene -- 3: Salaam Namaste, Melbourne and cosmopolitanism Andrew Hassam -- 4: Chak De! Australia: Bollywood down under Makarand Paranjape -- 5: Cook Cook Hota Hai: Indian cinema, kitchen culture and diaspora Srilata Ravi -- 6: Rangla Punjab in Canberra, Yamla Jatt folk night in Sydney, Oorja nights in Melbourne Anjali Gera Roy -- 7: orbits of desire: Bollywood as creative industry in Australia Debjani Ganguly -- 8: sweet dreams are made of this: Bollywood and Transnational South Asians in Australia Devleena Ghosh -- 9: Interview AK Tareen, senior trade commisioner - india, government of South Australia, 27 February 2008 -- filmography -- image credits -- notes on contributors --
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Bombay cinema : an archive of the city / Ranjani Mazumdar Minneapolis, Minn: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Call No: 71(547.1) MAZAuthor: Mazumdar, Ranjani Source: USPlace: Minneapolis, MinnPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPubDate: 2007PhysDes: xxxvii, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: INDIAN CINEMA ; INDIA Summary: "Cinema is not only a major industry in India, it is a powerful cultural force. But until now, no one has undertaken a major examination of the ways in which films made in Bombay mediate the urban experience in India. In this analysis of the cinematic city, Ranjani Mazumdar reveals a complex postnationalist world, convulsed by the social crisis of the 1970s and transformed by the experience of globalization in the 1990s. Bombay Cinema leads the reader into the heart or the urban labyrinth in India, revising and deepening our understanding of both the city and cinema" - BLURBNotes: Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references (p.231-244) and indexISBN: 9780816649426Contents: Introduction : urban allegories -- 1. Rage on screen -- 2. The rebellious Tapori -- 3. Desiring women -- 4. The panoramic interior -- 5. Gangland Bombay -- Conclusion : after life
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Close Look : Chalachthra Magazine : 50 years of Malayalam cinema / V.K. Narayanan Poojappura, India: V.K. Narayanan, January 1988.
Call No: 71(540)Author: Narayanan, V.K. Edition: 1988Place: Poojappura, IndiaPublisher: V.K. NarayananPubDate: January 1988PhysDes: 16 p. ; 25cmSubject: INDIAN CINEMA ; ARAVINDAN, GOVINDAN ; ELIPPATHAYAM (II, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 1982) ; CHEMMEEN (II, Ramu Kariat, 1966) Notes: Vol. VI, No. 71, January 1988 issue of Close Look, journal of Chalachithra, the film society of Trivandrum, published to mark Filmotsav 88.Language: English
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Fashioning Bollywood : the making and meaning of Hindi film costume / Clare Wilkinson-Weber London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
Call No: 226.4(540) WILAuthor: Wilkinson-Weber Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: BloomsburyPubDate: 2014PhysDes: x, 212 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmSubject: INDIA ; INDIAN CINEMA ; FASHION ; FASHION IN FILMS ; COSTUMES. INDIA ; STARS. INDIA Summary: The Hindi film industry, among the most prolific in the world, has delighted audiences for decades with its colourful, exquisite and sometimes startling costumes. But are costumes more than just a source of pleasure? This book, the first in-depth exploration of Hindi film costume, contends that they are a unique source of knowledge about issues ranging from Indian taste and fashion to questions of identity, gender and work. Anthropological and film studies approaches combine to analyze costume as the outcome of production processes and as a cinematic device for conveying meaning. Chapters lead from the places where costume is planned and executed to explorations of characterization, the actor body, spectacles of fashion, to the imagining of historical or fantasy worlds through dress, to the power of stardom to launch clothing styles into the public domain. As well as charting the course of film costume as it parallels important trends in cultural history, the book considers the future of Hindi film costume, in the context of new strains of filmmaking that stress unvarnished realism.Notes: Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and indexISBN: 9781847886972Contents: Introduction -- The people and places of costume production -- Costume and character: wearing and being -- Costume and the body -- Fashion and spectacle -- Dressing the past -- Beyond the screen
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From the outback to the background : Indian films in Australia in Studies in Australasian cinema (2010) vol.4 iss.3 p.215-30
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Indian actor 'hungry' for more international projects in Saturday Age [Arts & entertainment] (15/08/2015) p.40
Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; KAPOOR, ANILAuthor: Hawker, Phillipa PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: INDIAN CINEMA ; KAPOOR, ANIL Summary: An article and interview with Indian actor Anil Kapoor. It talks about the Indian film industry, films & tv series Kapoor has been in and his current projects. The interview is done because Kapoor is in Australia for the Indian film festival of Melbourne.
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The magic of Bollywood : at home and abroad / edited by Anjali Gera Roy New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2012.
Call No: 408.1(540) ROYAuthor: Roy, Anjali Gera Source: IIPlace: New DelhiPublisher: Sage PublicationsPubDate: 2012PhysDes: 334 p. ; 23 cmSubject: BOLLYWOOD ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. INDIA ; INDIA ; INDIAN CINEMA ; WORLD CINEMA Summary: "Few would deny that the most significant weapon in India's cultural and artisitc armory is its avowedly commerical cinema, now known as Bollywood. This anthology aims to portray the "soft" power of Bollywood, which makes it a unique and powerful disseminator of Indian culture and values abroad. The essays in the book examine Bollywood's popularity within and outside South Asia, focusing on its role in international relations and diplomacy. In addition to contributions that directly engage with the notion of soft power, a number of essays in the volume testify to the attractiveness of Bollywood cinema for ethnically diverse groups across the world, probe the reasons for its appeal, and explore its audiences' identification with cinematic narratives. Established and emerging scholars in literature, theater, film, dance, music, media, cultural studies, and sociology from different parts of the world present their views from multidisciplinary perspectives based on case studies from Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Germany, Russia, the US, Senegal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Canada, in addition to India" -- BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9788132107323Contents: -- list of tables -- list of abbreviations -- forword by Ishtiaq Ahmed -- acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction / Anjali Gera Roy -- Brand Bollywood and the new Bollywood film. -- Chapter two: Mainstream Hindi cinema and brand Bollywood: the transformation of a cultural artifact / M. K. Raghavendra -- Chapter 3: Post-national B(H)ollywood and the national imaginary / Meena T. Pillai -- Bollywood's soft power: some facts and figures. --Chapter 4: Bollywood and soft power: content trends and hybridity in popular Hindi cinema / David J. Schaefer and Kavita Karan -- Chapter 5: A regional mosaic: linguistic diversity and India's film trade / Sunitha Chitrapu -- Indian films' traditional markets: South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Russia. -- Chapter 6: "Dada negativity" and Pakistani characters in Bollywood films / Kamal ud Din and Nukhbah Taj Langah -- Chapter 7: Soft power and Pakistani viewers / Shahnaz Khan -- Chapter 8: Bollywood film culture in Indonesia's mediascapes / Shuri Mariasih Gietty Tambunan -- Chapter 9: Indian films in the USSR and Russia: past, present, and future / Elena Igorevna Doroshenko --Chapter 10: Indophilie and Bollywood's popularity in Senegal: strands of identity dynamics / Gwenda Vander Steene -- Chapter 11: "Bollywoodization" as (H)Indianization? Bangladesh film industry under national protection / Zakir Hossain Raju -- New territories: Bollywood in the West Australia, Canada, Europe, and New Zealand. -- Chapter 12: From tawa'if to wife? making sense of Bollywood's courtesan genre / Teresa Hubel -- Chapter 13; Bollywood in da club: social space in Toronto's "South Asian" community / Omme-Salma Rahemtullah -- Chapter 14: Bollywood internet forums and Australian cultural diplomacy / Andrew Hassam -- Chapter 15: Addressing the nonresident: soft power, Bollywood, and the diasporic audience / Adrian Athique -- chapter 16: Bollywood's circuits in Germany / Florian Krauss -- about the editor and contributors -- index --
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New Indian cinema : Cry of the Wounded (Aakrosh) in NFT (September 1982) p.8-13
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New Indian cinema : Donkey In A Brahmin's Village (Agraharathil Kazhuthai) in NFT (September 1982) p.8-13
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New Indian cinema : What Makes Albert Pinto Angry (Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai) in NFT (September 1982) p.8-13
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Tamil Cinema : the cultural politics of India's other film industry / edited by Selvaraj Velayutham London: Routledge, 2008.
Call No: 71(548) TAMAuthor: Velayutham, Selvaraj (ed) Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2008PhysDes: xvi, 201 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Routledge media, culture and social change in Asia ; 14Subject: INDIA ; INDIAN CINEMA Summary: "Examines the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. Outlines the cinema's history and distinctive characteristics, and proceeds to consider a number of important themes such as gender and the portayal of women, religion, class and the politics of identity. S Velayutham, University of Western Sydney, Australia. " -- LIBRARIES AUSTRALIANotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Recommended Reading HUMS 2023 2008ISBN: 9780415396806Contents: -- List of figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Cultural History and Politics of South Indian Tamil Cinema -- Selvaraj Velayutham -- 1. A Good Woman, A Very Good Woman: Tamil Cinema's Women -- C.S. Lakshmi -- 2. The Tamil Film Heroine: From a Passive Subject to a Pleasurable Object -- Sathiavathi Chinniah -- 3. Bringing the Amman into presence in Tamil Cinema: Cinema Spectatorship as Sensuous Apprehension -- Kalpana Ram -- 4. Politics and the Film in Tamil Nadu: The Stars and the DMK -- Robert Hardgrave -- 5. The Nurturing Hero: Changing Images of MGR -- Sara Dickey -- 6. Tamil Cinema in the Public Sphere: The Evolving Art of Banner Advertisements in Chennai -- Preminda Jacob -- 7. Encountering a New Art: Writers Response to Cinema in Tamil Nadu -- Theodore Baskaran -- 8. Cinema in the Countryside: Popular Tamil Film and the Remaking of Rural Life -- Anand Pandian -- 9. Imaginary Geographies: The Makings of 'South' in Contemporary Tamil Cinema -- Rajan Krishnan -- 10. Encounters with 'India': (Ethno)-Nationalism in Tamil Cinema -- Vijay Devadas and Selvaraj Velayutham -- 11. The Diaspora and the Global Circulation of Tamil Cinema -- Selvaraj Velayutham -- Index --
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