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Total Pages : 317 pages
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Download or read book Rural Culture in Hindi Cinema written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mallika Padmanabhan
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Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Cinema and the Villager: Analyzing Rural India's Changing Access to Hindi Film written by Mallika Padmanabhan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of Hindi film scholarship focuses on the industry's globalization and its diversifying audience demographics in recent years. As a result of this outward focus, Indian villagers have been greatly ignored in Hindi film research, despite making up 70% of the country's population. This thesis argues that by using the lens of comparative historical sociology, we can understand the overlapping and connected changes in technological, social and institutional contexts in post-independence India, and how these changes have affected the extent to which rural Indians have accessed Hindi cinema, both pragmatically and emotionally. Important historical processes to consider include the diffusion of ICTs, lingering effects of the caste system, and the globalization of the Hindi film industry. Reconceptualizing the historical contexts as networks helps focus the analysis on issues of access, where connections exist, and how different actors are included - or excluded. Furthermore, this thesis supplements a macro historical lens with content analysis, which illustrates how broader changes manifest in cultural texts. In particular, examining ten Hindi films from 1953 to 2009, this thesis examines the changing narrative of on-screen portrayal of rural India. This multilayered long durée perspective not only helps map historical shifts occurring simultaneously in multiple 'networks,' but also shows how more explosive changes in the short durée - such as recent ICT diffusion and Bollywood's globalization - relate to the broader multiple-network system. As a result, we find a complex cyclical relationship between Hindi film and the broader technological, social, and institutional contexts from which these cultural texts emerge.
Author : Rini Bhattacharya Mehta
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857287826
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Bollywood and Globalization written by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.
Author : Neepa Majumdar
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119048265
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Indian Cinema written by Neepa Majumdar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection in the Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas series, featuring the cinemas of India In A Companion to Indian Cinema, film scholars Neepa Majumdar and Ranjani Mazumdar along with 25 established and emerging scholars, deliver new research on contemporary and historical questions on Indian cinema. The collection considers Indian cinema's widespread presence both within and outside the country, and pays particular attention to regional cinemas such as Bhojpuri, Bengali, Malayalam, Manipuri, and Marathi. The volume also reflects on the changing dimensions of technology, aesthetics, and the archival impulse of film. The editors have included scholarship that discusses a range of films and film experiences that include commercial cinema, art cinema, and non-fiction film. Even as scholarship on earlier decades of Indian cinema is challenged by the absence of documentation and films, the innovative archival and field work in this Companion extends from cinema in early twentieth century India to a historicized engagement with new technologies and contemporary cinematic practices. There is a focus on production cultures and circulation, material cultures, media aesthetics, censorship, stardom, non-fiction practices, new technologies, and the transnational networks relevant to Indian cinema. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students of film and media studies, South Asian studies, and history, A Companion to Indian Cinema is also an important new resource for scholars with an interest in the context and theoretical framework for the study of India's moving image cultures.
Author : K. Moti Gokulsing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113677291X
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas written by K. Moti Gokulsing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After years of marginalisation by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the centre of the world cinema in a comparatively short space of time. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars in the field, this Handbook looks at the complex reasons for this remarkable journey. Combining a historical and thematic approach, the Handbook discusses how Indian cinemas need to be understood in their historical unfolding as well as their complex relationships to social, economic, cultural, political, ideological, aesthetic, technical and institutional discourses. The thematic section provides an up-to-date critical narrative on diverse topics such as audience, censorship, film distribution, film industry, diaspora, sexuality, film music and nationalism. The Handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting edge survey of Indian cinemas, discussing Popular, Parallel/New Wave and Regional cinemas as well as the spectacular rise of Bollywood. It is an invaluable resource for students and academics of South Asian Studies, Film Studies and Cultural Studies.
Author : Biswal, Santosh Kumar
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799835138
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Social and Cultural Dynamics in Indian Cinema written by Biswal, Santosh Kumar and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema in India is an entertainment medium that is interwoven into society and culture at large. It is clearly evident that continuous struggle and conflict at the personal as well as societal levels is depicted in cinema in India. It has become a reflection of society both in negative and positive ways. Hence, cinema has become an influential factor and one of the largest mass communication mediums in the nation. Social and Cultural Dynamics in Indian Cinema is an essential reference source that discusses cultural and societal issues including caste, gender, oppression, and social movements through cinema and particularly in specific language cinema and culture. Featuring research on topics such as Bollywood, film studies, and gender equality, this book is ideally designed for researchers, academicians, film studies students, and industry professionals seeking coverage on various aspects of regional cinema in India.
Author : Adam Muller
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552381676
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Concepts of Culture written by Adam Muller and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we define 'culture?' In this volume, Adam Muller brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars in a number of different disciplines who each examine the concept of culture as it is understood and deployed within their respective fields.
Author : Arindam
Publisher : Penprints Publication
ISBN 13 : 8197589488
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book MEDIA, CULTURE AND SOCIETY: INTER-RELATION AND EVOLUTION written by Arindam and published by Penprints Publication. This book was released on 2024-09-20 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cornelius Crowley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443878545
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema written by Cornelius Crowley and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent. Through the various methods adopted, the objects and moments examined, it questions various linguistic, literary and artistic appropriations of the past, to address the conflicting comprehensions of the present and also the figuring/imagining of a possible future. The volume engages with this general cultural condition, in relation both to the subcontinent’s current “synchronic” reality and to certain aspects of the culture’s underlying diachronic determinations. It also reveals how the multiple heritages are negotiated through the subcontinent’s long-term sedimentational history. It scrutinizes both conservative interpretations of heritage and a possibly incremental enrichment, and the additional possibility of a mode of appropriation open to a dialectic of creative destruction, in which the patrimonial imperative is challenged, leaving room for processes of renewal and rejuvenation. The collection is organized around four major topics: Orientalism, addressed by way of the Tamil Epic Manimekalai, through the evocation of the Hastings Circle and views on a possible Hindu-Muslim unity sketched out by Sayyid Ahmed Khan; modernism in Indian and Burmese texts written in English; pictorial art, through a consideration of the work of British Asian and Indian film directors; and, finally, the current state of a body of critical thinking on gender.
Author : Maināka Biśvāsa
Publisher : Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9788170462507
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (625 download)
Download or read book City Flicks written by Maināka Biśvāsa and published by Seagull Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between cinema and modernity in the Indian context is both complex and multifaceted. In this volume, some of the leading names in film and cultural studies explore its many dimensions. The essays range from discussions of urbanity and film language to realism and the Indian city in Bengali films of the 1940s; from the cultural resonances of popular Hindi film songs and the idea of the 'city' to realism and fantasy in cinematic representations of metropolitan Indian life; from cinematic aspects of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children to genre, narrative form and film style in contemporary Indian urban action films; from the complexities of female spectatorship to an analysis of the current primacy of Bollywood and finally, to the cultural impact and influence of Indian cinema on audiences outside India. Book jacket.
Author : K. Moti Gokulsing
Publisher : Trentham Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Indian Popular Cinema written by K. Moti Gokulsing and published by Trentham Books Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an engaging introduction to a fascinating national cinema that is little known in the west.It is the first survey both to cover the full range of Indian film -- popular, artistic and regional -- and to provide the historical and cultural dimensions to enable the reader appreciate its distinctive forms.This book offers both general readers and students of film a succinct and informative guide to the key developments, themes, films and figures of Indian film; and the necessary background to understand India and its influences."Bollywood" and India s regional filmmakers produce more films than any other country. While it has remained peripheral to western cinema buffs, Indian popular film wields immense influence as the main form of entertainment enjoyed by Indian audiences and the Indian Diaspora, who represent at least a sixth of the world s population. The authors begin with an overview of the historical development of Indian cinema, its key characteristics and points of distinctiveness; and then explore the themes and concerns which are pertinent to a critical understanding, through discussion of a wide range of films. A key chapter considers how women are represented, and represent themselves, on screen.Covering the nine decades of Indian cinema, their range of reference includes both films which have achieved classic status, such as Mother India, Awaara and Sholay, and the lesser known films which are recognized landmarks in the development of the industry. They equally embrace recent developments and the contributions of British Asian filmmakers.The book includes a glossary of Indian terms.
Author : Ashish Shekhar
Publisher : Pencil
ISBN 13 : 9362634392
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (626 download)
Download or read book The Power of Portrayal written by Ashish Shekhar and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2024-06-09 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Portrayal: Movies and Culture" delves into the intricate relationship between cinema and society. This insightful book explores how movies shape and reflect cultural trends, examining various theories and concepts through film examples. It analyzes storytelling techniques, viewing colors as characters and uncovering metaphors that illuminate broader cultural themes. From B-grade cinema's impact on cultural norms to assumptions about male attractiveness and evolving beauty standards, this book reveals the profound influence of film on our understanding of culture and identity. With engaging insights and thought-provoking analysis, "The Power of Portrayal" is a must-read for anyone curious about the dynamic interplay between movies and society.
Author : Rajinder Dudrah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136451307
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Bollywood Travels written by Rajinder Dudrah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, popular cultures, and media and entertainment industries from the popular Hindi cinema of India. It analyses and discusses a range of key contemporary films in detail, such as Veer Zaara, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, and Dostana. The book uses the notion of travel analytically in and through the cinema to comment on films that have dealt with Indo-Pak border crossings, representations of diaspora, and gender and sexuality in new ways. It engages with common sense assumptions about everyday South Asian and diasporic South Asian cultures and representations as expressed in Bollywood cinema in order to look at these issues further. Moving towards an innovative exploration beyond the films, this book charts the circuits and routes of Bollywood as South Asian club cultures in the diaspora, and Hindi cinema entertainment shows around the world, as well as its impact on social media websites. Bollywood Travels is an original and thought provoking contribution to studies on Asian Culture and Society, Sociology, World Cinema, and Film, Media and Cultural Studies.
Author : V. Kishore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137426500
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Bollywood and its Other(s) written by V. Kishore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we define the globalized cinema and media cultures of Bollywood in an age when it has become part of the cultural diplomacy of an emerging superpower? Bollywood and Its Other(s) explores the aesthetic-philosophical questions of the other through, for example, discussions on Indian diaspora's negotiations with national identity.
Author : Asha Kasbekar Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851096418
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Pop Culture India! written by Asha Kasbekar Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The over-the-top musicals of Bollywood may be the most familiar aspect of Indian popular culture, but there are many more, all explored in this fascinating volume. Pop Culture India! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle follows the rise of modern India's pop culture world, especially since the 1980s, when relaxed censorship and economic liberalization led to an explosion in movies, music, mass media, consumerism, spiritual practices, and more. It is a captivating introduction to a diverse nation whose appetite for entertainment has led to some surprising twists and turns in recent history. How did a popular Indian television series spark a change in government and the rise of Hindu nationalism? Are some Bollywood film companies laundering money for organized crime, or even al Qaeda? What accounts for the overwhelming popularity of that quaint vestige of colonialism, cricket? The answers, and many more intriguing insights, await the reader in Pop Culture India!
Author : Patrick Colm Hogan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292779550
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Understanding Indian Movies written by Patrick Colm Hogan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian movies are among the most popular in the world. However, despite increased availability and study, these films remain misunderstood and underappreciated in much of the English-speaking world, in part for cultural reasons. In this book, Patrick Colm Hogan sets out through close analysis and explication of culturally particular information about Indian history, Hindu metaphysics, Islamic spirituality, Sanskrit aesthetics, and other Indian traditions to provide necessary cultural contexts for understanding Indian films. Hogan analyzes eleven important films, using them as the focus to explore the topics of plot, theme, emotion, sound, and visual style in Indian cinema. These films draw on a wide range of South Asian cultural traditions and are representative of the greater whole of Indian cinema. By learning to interpret these examples with the tools Hogan provides, the reader will be able to take these skills and apply them to other Indian films. But this study is not simply culturalist. Hogan also takes up key principles from cognitive neuroscience to illustrate that all cultures share perceptual, cognitive, and emotional elements that, when properly interpreted, can help to bridge gaps between seemingly disparate societies. Hogan locates the specificity of Indian culture in relation to human universals, and illustrates this cultural-cognitive synthesis through his detailed interpretations of these films. This book will help both scholars and general readers to better understand and appreciate Indian cinema.
Author : Ram Awatar Agnihotri
Publisher : Commonwealth
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Social and Political Study of Modern Hindi Cinema written by Ram Awatar Agnihotri and published by Commonwealth. This book was released on 1990 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
