Format:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 259 p)
Edition:
1. publ.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
020393329X
,
0415447410
,
0415576601
,
9780203933299
,
9780415447416
,
9780415576604
Series Statement:
Routledge contemporary South Asia series 6
Content:
This book considers the popular cinema of North India (Bollywood) and how it recasts literary classics. It addresses the socio-political implications of popular reinterpretations of elite culture, exploring gender issues and the perceived sexism of popular films and how that plays out when literature is reworked into film
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgments; Transliteration and abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1: Indian epics in film; 1 Bending the Bharata; 2 Family, feminism, and film in remaking Ramayana; Part 2: Casting classical Sanskrit drama; 3 Sakuntala: The look and the image in literature, theater, and cinema; 4 Mrcchakatikam to Utsav: Re-creation of a Sanskrit classic by Girish Karnad; Part 3: Saints on the screen; 5 Bhakti songs recast: Gulzar's Meera movie; Part 4: Genre and themes from "Indo-Islamic" culture
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6 Religious culture and folklore in the Urdu historical drama Anarkali, revisited by Indian cinema7 From ghazal to film music: The case of Mirza Ghalib; Part 5: Classics from colonial literature; 8 Remembering, repeating, and working through Devdas; 9 The political aesthetic of nation and gender in Rituparno Ghosh's Chokher Bali; Part 6: Agenda-driven literature; 10 Lyrically speaking Hindi film songs and the progressive aesthetic; 11 Dharmputra and the Partition of India; Conclusion; Index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
Print version Indian Literature and Popular Cinema : Recasting Classics
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Indien
;
Literatur
;
Film
;
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