UID:
almafu_9960119491002883
Format:
1 online resource (xxiii, 218 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-85728-295-6
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1-299-20181-4
Series Statement:
New Perspectives on World Cinema
Content:
'The Slumdog Phenomenon' addresses multiple issues related to 'Slumdog Millionaire' and, in the process, provides new ways of looking at this controversial film. Each of the book's four sections considers a particular aspect of the film: its relation to the nation, to the slum, to Bollywood and its reception. The volume provides a critical overview of the key issues and debates stemming from the film, and allows readers to reexamine them in light of the anthology's multiple perspectives.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Introduction / Ajay Gehlawat -- SLUMDOG AND THE NATION. National Allegory / Brian Larkin -- Slumdog and the Emerging Centrality of India / Sharmila Mukherjee -- Slumlord Aesthetics and the Question of Indian Poverty / Nandini Chandra -- Watching Time: Slumdog Millionaire and National Ontology / Lakshmi Padmanabhan -- SLUNDOG AND THE SLUM. Slumdog Millionaire and Epistemologies of the City / Ulka Anjaria and Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria -- A Million Dollar Exit from the Slum-world: Slumdog Millionaire's Troubling Formula for Social Justice / Mitu Sengupta -- Slumdogs and Millionaires: Facts and Fictions of Indian (under)Development / Snehal Shingavi -- SLUMDOG AND BOLLYWOOD. Slumdogs, Coolies and Gangsters: Amitabh Bachchan and the Legacy of 1970s Bollywood in Slumdog Millionaire / Claus Tieber -- "It is Written" (in Invisible Ink): Slumdog Millionaire's SFX and the Realist Overwriting of Bollywood Spectacle / Samhita Sunya -- SLUMDOG'S RECEPTIONS. Why the Sun Shines on Slumdog / Anandam Kavoori -- Slumdog Celebrities / Priya Jaikumar -- Slumdog Millionaire and the New Middlebrow / Robert Koehler -- Slumdog Comprador: Coming to Terms with the Slumdog Phenomenon / Ajay Gehlawat -- The Life-Cycle of Slumdog Millionaire on the Web / Thomas Elsaesser and Warren Buckland -- Conclusion: Jai Who?
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-85728-001-5
Language:
English
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