For those who think, read, teach, and write about Bollywood, this book is the release of the year!
They are the ‘stars’ who sit behind the camera and create magic between ‘Action’ and ‘Cut’. Meet the directors of New Age cinema who with their themes, characteristic styles, and masterful storytelling are bridging the gap between commerce and content, commercial and art-house cinema.
This book introduces you to the films they have made and provides a critical analysis of their craft, while remaining grounded in cinematic and popular culture theories. It shows the distinct ways in which they have handled issues of gender, urban culture, and social inequality.
Author(s): Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Vimal Mohan John
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 422
City: Los Angeles
Cover page
Half title page
Full title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Marketing page
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Cinema of Glamour and Celebration
1 Main Hoon Farah
2 Mansoor Khan
3 Farhan Akhtar
4 Aditya Chopra’s ‘Glamorous Realism’
5 Authorship, Industry and the Intermedial Relay
6 Rajkumar Hirani
7 Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Part II Cinema of Commentaries andInterventions
8 In the Morbid Interregnum
9 Post-colonial Transgression in Deepa Mehta’s Feminist Quartet
10 Sounding Dystopia
11 Globalization, Reflexivity and Genre in Zoya Akhtar’s Films
12 Urban Dreams
13 Ashutosh Gowariker
14 Madhur Bhandarkar and the New Bollywood Social
Part III Gendered Cinema
15 Finding Femininity
16 Gender Politics and Small-town India
17 Women in the Dark World
18 ‘There Is No Greater Joy than Telling a Story One Believes In’—Our Brother Onir
19 Location and Agency in Crafting Habib Faisal’s Authorship
Glossary
Filmography
Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
