Rachel Dwyer
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Modern Indian studies have become a site for new, creative, and thought-provoking debates extending over a broad canvas of crucial issues. As a result of socio-political transformations, certain conceptsâsuch as Ahimsa, Caste, Darshan, and Raceâhave taken on different meanings.
Bringing together ideas, issues, and debates salient to modern Indian studies, this volume charts out the social, cultural, political, and economic processes at work in the ...
Indian cinema is now almost synonymous with ‘Bollywood’, both within India and globally. But does this shorthand tell the whole story? Does it encompass the range of India’s cinematic production? Beyond the Boundaries of Bollywood explores forms of Hindi cinema that cannot be termed ‘Bollywood’, including those that predate it, and those that are undeniably discrete from it.Combining essays and interviews, this volume analyses the ...
Cinema is one of India’s most vibrant cultural products, as well as a major industry, producing the largest number of films in the world. This is the first book to concentrate on the dynamic visual culture of Indian cinema, tracing the development of the popular or commercial cinema in Bombay (Mumbai) since 1913. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Dwyer and Patel trace Bombay cinema’s historical roots in early photography, theatre and chromolithography and ...
Yash Chopra: Fifty Years in Indian Cinema looks at one of the most charismatic and powerful figures within the Indian film industry—his name being synonymous with romantic glamour and a certain style within Indian culture. From his directorial debut in 1959 with Dhool ka Phool, the book spans his four decades as a director describing some memorable classics like Deewar and Kabhi Kabhie. It journeys with him to his advent as a producer in 1973, enumerating his ...
Bollywood Films is about the national cinema of India, describing movies made in Mumbai, distributed across India and with their own production, distribution and exhibition network worldwide. This informative screen guide reflects the work of key directors, major stars and important music directors and screenplay writers. Historically important films have been included along with certain cult movies and top box-office successes. No guide to ...
'This book will be an eye-opener for those who still think of religion as something traditional. Based on a wealth of original research. Dwyer's narrative of religion in Indian cinema tells us how the divine makes itself at home in modern technology. More than an argument about the representation of religion in film, her book addresses the very different ways in which Hindu, Muslim and other forms of devotion pervade and are professor Faisal Devji, The ...