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A fascinating account of the theatrical beginnings of Bollywood and the Indo-Islamic storytelling traditions of the subcontinent, the volume looks at how Islamicate cultures have richly informed and structured mainstream Hindi cinema. It tells us how it was Urdu which provided the language of quintessential romance, passion and poetry for it.
Acknowledging the central contribution of Hindu mythology, narrative visual arts and epics on storytelling in film, the ...
From Bombay (Mumbai) and other production centres on the Indian subcontinent, Indian popular cinema has travelled globally for nearly a century, culminating in the Bollywood-inspired, Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire.
This volume brings together perspectives on Indian popular cinema, universally known as Bollywood now, from different disciplinary and geographical locations to look afresh at national cinemas. It shows how Bollywood cinema has always crossed ...
This critical anthology brings together Soyinka scholars from across the globe to throw new light on major issues and concerns in Soyinka studies. These include Soyinka’s embeddedness in autochthonous metaphysics and his ritual theory of drama in Yoruba myth, the relation between post-colonial theory and embodied practice, a critique of the ‘culturalist’ argument in Soyinka’s works, his representations of gender, and his use of postmodernist play. The ...
Cultural Interfaces is a collection of twenty papers by international as well as young research scholars engaged in Australian Studies in India. These were presented at the First International Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Australia (IASA). With contributions from Bruce Bennett, Jennifer Strauss, Dennis Haskell, Satendra Nandan, David Kimber, Fran Siemensma, Parimal Roy and Marianne Robinson, Y. Yagama Reddy and Quentin-Stevenson ...