Twenty-First Century Bollywood
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Twenty-First Century Bollywood

  1. 156 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Twenty-First Century Bollywood

About this book

Key changes have emerged in Bollywood in the new millennium. Twenty-First Century Bollywood traces the emerging shifts in both the content and form of Bollywood cinema and examines these new tendencies in relation to the changing dynamics of Indian culture. The book historically situates these emerging trends in relation to previous norms, and develops new, innovative paradigms for conceptualizing Bollywood in the twenty-first century.

The particular shifts in contemporary Bollywood cinema that the book examines include the changing nature of the song and dance sequence, the evolving representations of male and female sexuality, and the increasing presence of whiteness as a dominant trope in Bollywood cinema. It also focuses on the increasing presence of Bollywood in higher education courses in the West, as well as how Bollywood's growing presence in such academic contexts illuminates the changing ways in which this cinema is consumed by Western audiences.

Shifting the focus back on the cinematic elements of contemporary films themselves, the book analyses Bollywood films by considering the film dynamics on their own terms, and related to their narrative and aesthetic usage, rather than through an analysis of large-scale industrial practices. It will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Studies, Film Studies, and Cultural Studies.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781138793606
eBook ISBN
9781317643999

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of figures
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: Bollywood in the age of digital reproduction
  8. 1 Disassembling Bollywood: coming to terms with a moniker and a style
  9. 2 Reconstructing femininity: from the vamp to Bollywood’s new woman
  10. 3 The Gori in the story: the shifting dynamics of whiteness in Bollywood
  11. 4 Smooth as silk: metrosexual masculinity in contemporary Bollywood
  12. 5 Bollywood 101: teaching Hindi cinema in the West
  13. 6 Conclusion, or where did my Bollywood go?
  14. Bibliography
  15. Filmography
  16. Index