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Censorship and sexuality in Bombay cinema / Monika Mehta Austin, TX: University of Texas, 2011.
Call No: 440.2(540) MEHAuthor: Mehta, Monika Edition: 1stSource: USPlace: Austin, TXPublisher: University of TexasPubDate: 2011PhysDes: xi, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; CENSORSHIP. INDIA ; BOLLYWOOD ; WOMEN IN FILMS. INDIA ; DILWALE DULHANIYA LE JAYENGE (II, Aditya Chopra, [1995]) ; GUPT GYAN (II, B. K. Adarsh, 1974) ; KHAL NAYAK (II, Subhash Ghai, 1993) Summary: "India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexuality in Bombay cinema. She studies how film censorship on various levels makes the female body and female sexuality pivotal in constructing national identity, not just through the films themselves but also through the heated debates that occur in newspapers and other periodicals. The standard claim is that the state dictates censorship and various prohibitions, but Mehta explores how relationships among the state, the film industry, and the public illuminates censorships' role in identity formation, while also examining how desire, profits, and corruption are generated through the act of censoring.
Committed to extending a feminist critique of mass culture in the global south, Mehta situates the story of censorship in a broad social context and traces the intriguing ways in which the heated debates on sexuality in Bombay cinema actually produce the very forms of sexuality they claim to regulate. She imagines afresh the theoretical field of censorship by combining textual analysis, archival research, and qualitative fieldwork (personal interviews and direct observation of censorship committees). By employing this interdisciplinary methodology and mobilizing Michel Foucault's insights on micropractices, Mehta places concerns of representation, film production, film reception, and state interventions in a productive dialogue. Her analysis reveals how central concepts of film studies, such as stardom, spectacle, genre, and sound, are employed and (re)configured within the ambit of state censorship, thereby expanding the scope of their application and impact." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Minnesota, 2001 -- Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9780292726925Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013Contents: Beginning -- Revisiting the history of film censorship -- Close-up: the Central Board of Film Certification -- The first sex-education film: a classification conundrum -- Satyam shivam sundaram: (im)proper suturing of sound, scar, and stardom -- An anomalous dilemma: to ban or to certify the self-sacrificial wife in Pati parmeshwar -- Tracking the twists and turns in the Khalnayak -- Debates on censorship -- Dilwale dulhania le jayenge: certifying a "family love" story -- From censorship to selections
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Dilwale dulhania le jayenge : (the brave-hearted will take the bride) / Anupama Chopra London: bfi Publishing, 2002.
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An introduction to film studies / edited by Jill Nelmes London: Routledge, 1999.
Call No: 62 INTAuthor: Nelmes, Jill, 1954 Edition: 2nd edPlace: LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1999PhysDes: xviii, 522 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: WARNER BROS. ; STUDIO SYSTEM ; AUDIENCES ; GENRES ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; ANIMATION ; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; UNITED KINGDOM ; INDIA ; USSR ; GERMANY ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; SPECTATORSHIP ; CENSORSHIP ; STARS ; AUTEUR THEORY ; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA ; KULESOV, LEV ; KAPOOR, RAJ ; Ray, Satyajit ; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR ; SHUB, ESTHER ; FLAHERTY, ROBERT ; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY ; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI ; WISEMAN, FREDERICK ; POTTER, SALLY ; TOCCAFONDO, GIANLUIGI ; FELLOW TRAVELLER (UK/US, Philip Saville, 1990) ; DUCK AMUCK (US, Chuck Jones, 1953) ; GIRLS' NIGHT OUT (UK, Joanna Quinn, 1987) ; COLOUR BOX, A (UK, Len Lye, 1935) ; DEADSY (UK, David Anderson, 1989) ; DILWALE DULHANIYA LE JAYENGE (II, Aditya Chopra, [1995]) ; JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975) ; CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992) ; PLATOON (US, Oliver Stone, 1986) ; MARS ATTACKS! (US, Tim Burton, 1996) ; ROBOCOP (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1987) ; GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927) ; IF... (UK, Lindsay Anderson, 1968) ; PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) ; NEW YORK, NEW YORK (US, Martin Scorsese, 1977) ; HOOP DREAMS (US, Steve James, 1994) ; WHEN WE WERE KINGS (US, Leon Gast, 1996) ; GIRLS LIKE US (US, Jane C. Wagner & Tina De Feliciantonio, 1997) ; CREATURE COMFORTS (UK, Nick Park, 1991) ; NEIGHBOURS (US, Norman McLaren, 1952) ; STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982) ; GOLD DIGGERS, THE (US, Sally Potter, 1983) ; ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992) ; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993) ; VICTIM (UK, Basil Dearden, 1961) ; DESERT HEARTS (US, Donna Deitch, 1985) ; LIVING END, THE (US, Gregg Araki, 1992) ; LOOKING FOR LANGSTON (UK, Isaac Julien, 1989) ; GO FISH (US, Rose Troche, 1994) ; TRAINSPOTTING (UK, Danny Boyle, 1996) ; FULL MONTY, THE (UK/US, Robert Cattaneo, 1997) ; ABSCHIED VON GESTERN (GW, Alexander Kluge, 1966) ; AMERIKANISCHE FREUND, DER (GW/FR, Wim Wenders, 1977) ; DEUTSCHLAND, BLEICHE MUTTER (GW, Helma Sanders-Brahms, 1980) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0415173094 (hb); 0415173108 (pb)LON: 14043939URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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An introduction to film studies / edited by Jill Nelmes London: Routledge, 2003.
Call No: 62 INTAuthor: Nelmes, Jill, 1954 Edition: 3rd edPlace: LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2003PhysDes: xviii, 522 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: WARNER BROS. ; STUDIO SYSTEM ; AUDIENCES ; GENRES ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; ANIMATION ; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; UNITED KINGDOM ; INDIA ; USSR ; GERMANY ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; SPECTATORSHIP ; CENSORSHIP ; STARS ; AUTEUR THEORY ; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA ; KULESOV, LEV ; KAPOOR, RAJ ; Ray, Satyajit ; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR ; SHUB, ESTHER ; FLAHERTY, ROBERT ; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY ; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI ; WISEMAN, FREDERICK ; POTTER, SALLY ; TOCCAFONDO, GIANLUIGI ; FELLOW TRAVELLER (UK/US, Philip Saville, 1990) ; DUCK AMUCK (US, Chuck Jones, 1953) ; GIRLS' NIGHT OUT (UK, Joanna Quinn, 1987) ; COLOUR BOX, A (UK, Len Lye, 1935) ; DEADSY (UK, David Anderson, 1989) ; DILWALE DULHANIYA LE JAYENGE (II, Aditya Chopra, [1995]) ; JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975) ; CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992) ; PLATOON (US, Oliver Stone, 1986) ; MARS ATTACKS! (US, Tim Burton, 1996) ; ROBOCOP (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1987) ; GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927) ; IF... (UK, Lindsay Anderson, 1968) ; PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) ; NEW YORK, NEW YORK (US, Martin Scorsese, 1977) ; HOOP DREAMS (US, Steve James, 1994) ; WHEN WE WERE KINGS (US, Leon Gast, 1996) ; GIRLS LIKE US (US, Jane C. Wagner & Tina De Feliciantonio, 1997) ; CREATURE COMFORTS (UK, Nick Park, 1991) ; NEIGHBOURS (US, Norman McLaren, 1952) ; STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982) ; GOLD DIGGERS, THE (US, Sally Potter, 1983) ; ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992) ; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993) ; VICTIM (UK, Basil Dearden, 1961) ; DESERT HEARTS (US, Donna Deitch, 1985) ; LIVING END, THE (US, Gregg Araki, 1992) ; LOOKING FOR LANGSTON (UK, Isaac Julien, 1989) ; GO FISH (US, Rose Troche, 1994) ; TRAINSPOTTING (UK, Danny Boyle, 1996) ; FULL MONTY, THE (UK/US, Robert Cattaneo, 1997) ; ABSCHIED VON GESTERN (GW, Alexander Kluge, 1966) ; AMERIKANISCHE FREUND, DER (GW/FR, Wim Wenders, 1977) ; DEUTSCHLAND, BLEICHE MUTTER (GW, Helma Sanders-Brahms, 1980) Summary: Reference work covering a wide range of concepts, theories and ideas about film studies covering different periods and countries. Attempts to present the diversity of thought within film theory. First published in 1996.Notes: Includes annotated key reading for each chapter, bibliography, glossary of key terms and index.ISBN: 0415173094 (hb); 0415173108 (pb)LON: 14043939
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Once upon a time in Bollywood : the global swing in Hindi cinema / edited by Gurbir Jolly, Zenia Wadhwani, and Deborah Barretto Toronto: Tsar, 2007.
Call No: 408.1(540) ONCSource: CNPlace: TorontoPublisher: TsarPubDate: 2007PhysDes: xiv, 192 p. ; 23 cmSubject: BOLLYWOOD ; INDIA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. INDIA ; GLOBALISATION ; JOLLY, GURBIR ; DEWEY, SUSAN ; MEHTA, MONIKA ; DESAI, RADHIKA ; DECKHA, NITIN ; SHARPE, JENNY ; KAUR, RAVINDER ; ANSARI, USAMAH ; BENJAMIN, SONIA ; SAIDULLAH, AHMAD ; DEVI, PHOOLAN ; KAPUR, SHEKHAR ; THOMAS, JENNIFER ; KHAN, MENBOOB ; RUSHDIE, SALMAN ; STADTLER, FLORIAN ; MONSOON WEDDING (US/II, Mira Nair, 2001) ; DILWALE DULHANIYA LE JAYENGE (II, Aditya Chopra, [1995]) ; BHARAT MATA (II, Mehboob, 1957) ; MOOR'S LAST SIGH, THE Summary: "Once Upon a Time in Bollywood presents an extravaganza of essays on globalization and contemporary Hindi cinema ("Bollywood"). The wide-ranqinq analytic strategies in the collection - including ethnographic self-reflection, literary comparison, economic contextualization, and biographic study - bear witness to Hindi cinema's aesthetically elaborate and politically entangled treatment of postcolonial concerns. Together, these essays invite fresh, critically informed engagements with many of the key issues and creative tensions that continue to shape the world's most prolific film industry. For connoisseurs and critics of Hindi cinema alike, Once Upon a Time in Bollywood presents stirring insights into popular culture"--BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781894770408Contents: Introduction: Globalization: The Musical / Gurbir Jolly -- Doing Bombay Darshan: The IMF, Structural Adjustment and National Identity in the Hindi Film Industry / Susan Dewey -- Globalizing Bombay Cinema: Reproducing the Indian State and Family / Monika Mehta -- Imagi Nation: The Reconfiguration of National Identity in Bombay Cinema in the 1990s / Radhika Desai -- From Artist-as-Hero to the Creative Young Man: Bollywood and the Aestheticization of Indian Masculinity / Nitin Deckha -- Gender, Nation, and Globalization in Monsoon Wedding and Dilwale Dulhania Le jayenge / Jenny Sharpe -- Viewing the West Through Bollywood: A Celluloid Occident in the Making / RAVlNDER KAUR -- Tempting Sights and Seven Seas: The Diasporic Self, Bollywood and the Gendered Politics of National Longing / Usamah Ansari -- The Trials of a Faithful Brahmin Wife, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Roja / Sonia Benjamin -- Power and Representation in Modern Indian Cinema: Case Studies from the Toronto Film Festival (1994) / Ahmad Saidullah -- Phoolan Devi's Open Letter to the Director of the Toronto International Film Festival -- Statement From the Director of the Toronto International Film Festival -- Defining Truth: An Interview with Shekhar Kapur -- Bollywood's Female Fantasies of Resistance: Online Fan Discourse and Modern Indian Identity / Jennifer Thomas -- Nargis and Aurora Zogoiby: Imaging Mother and Nation in Mehboob Khan's Mother India and Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh / Florian Stadtler
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Yash Chopra / Rachel Dwyer London: British Film Institute, 2002.
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