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Figurations in Indian film

Title
  1. Figurations in Indian film / edited by Meheli Sen, Rutgers University, USA, and Anustup Basu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Published by
  1. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, [England] ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Additional authors
  1. Sen, Meheli, 1976-
  2. Basu, Anustup
Description
  1. x, 292 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  1. Motion pictures > India
  2. Motion picture industry > India
  3. Motion pictures > Philosophy
  4. Human body in motion pictures
Contents
  1. Introduction: Meheli Sen -- Part 1. Political and typological figures -- Sensate outlaws: the recursive social bandit in Indian popular cultures / Bishnupriya Ghosháá -- What happened to Khadi? dress and costume in Bombay cinema / Anupama Kapse -- Configuring the other: the detective and the real in Satyajit Ray's Chiriakhana / Gautam Basu Thakur -- Part 2. Generic mutations -- Diverting diseases / M. Madhava Prasad -- Nevla as Dracula: figurations of the tantric as monster in the Hindi horror film / Usha Iyer -- Haunted havelis and hapless heroes: gender, genre and the Hindi gothic film / Meheli Sen -- Part 3. Star figures -- "The face that launched a thousand ships": Helen and public femininity in Hindi film / Anustup Basu -- From Superman to Shahenshah: stardom and the transfigurative body of Hrithik Roshan / Nandana Bose -- Con-figurations: the body as world in Bollywood stardom / Sumita S. Chakravarty -- Part 4. Figuring (out) new Bollywood -- Metafiguring Bollywood: (Brecht after Om Shanti Om) / Bhaskar Sarkar -- Bodies in syncopation / Moinak Biswas -- Between Violetta and Vasantasena is Toulouse-Lautrec: cinematic avatars and Bollywood in Moulin Rouge! / Kirsten Strayer -- Afterword: Anustup Basu.
Call number
  1. MFL 14-989
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title
  1. Figurations in Indian film / edited by Meheli Sen, Rutgers University, USA, and Anustup Basu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Publisher
  1. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, [England] ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added author
  1. Sen, Meheli, 1976- editor.
  2. Basu, Anustup, editor.
LCCN
  1. 2013044382
ISBN
  1. 9780230291799
  2. 0230291791
  3. 9781137349781 (PDF ebook)
Research call number
  1. MFL 14-989
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