Binding: Paperback
Description: India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After years of marginalization by academics in the Western world Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the center 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. Now available in paperback the Handbook combines a historical and thematic approach to discuss 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
Title: Routledge Handbook Of Indian Cinemas
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138311480
Pages: 472 Pages, 6 Tables, Black And White; 1 Line Drawings, Black And White; 16 Halftones, Black And Whit
Publication Date: 6/22/2018
Category: Regional Studies