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  • Popular Culture in South Asian Context

    Edited by Akshaya Kumar, Raj Thakur ...
    The volume examines popular sensibilities via textual, visual, performative, spatial, digital frames of inquiry and critical social-political issues in South Asia. It highlights the interface between cultural studies and its popular-political standpoints and interrogates the kaleidoscope of popular imaginary as well as its conceptual problematics through distinct case studies from the region. It ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

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    With a new essay on Satyajit Ray by Amitav Ghosh

    by Tabish Khair ...
    Looking back now, I am more than ever aware of the part that [Satyajit] Ray played in shaping the imaginary universe of my childhood and youth. I see this even in such details as my interest in science and science fiction; in ghost stories and the fantastical…When I saw Agantuk [The Stranger], in which the main character is an anthropologist, I began to wonder whether my interest in anthropology ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • English Heart, Hindi Heartland

    The Political Life of Literature in India

    by Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series Book 8 - FlashPoints
    English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture

    Edited by Vasudha Dalmia, Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food; it also explores in detail ... Read more

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  • Censorium

    Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity

    In the world of globalized media, provocative images trigger culture wars between traditionalists and cosmopolitans, between censors and defenders of free expression. But are images censored because of what they mean, what they do, or what they might become? And must audiences be protected because of what they understand, what they feel, or what they might imagine?At the intersection of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Salaam Bollywood

    Representations and interpretations

    This book traces the journey of popular Hindi cinema from 1913 to contemporary times when Bollywood has evolved as a part of India’s cultural diplomacy. Avoiding a linear, developmental narrative, the book re-examines the developments through the ruptures in the course of cinematic history. The essays in the volume critically consider transformations of the Hindi film industry from its early days ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Global Bollywood

    Travels of Hindi Song and Dance

    Edited by Sangita Gopal, Sujata Moorti ...
    Bollywood movies and their signature song-and-dance spectacles are an aesthetic familiar to people around the world, and Bollywood music now provides the rhythm for ads marketing goods such as computers and a beat for remixes and underground bands. These musical numbers have inspired scenes in Western films such as Vanity Fair and Moulin Rouge.Global Bollywood shows how this currency in popular ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Dancing Body

    Labour, Livelihood and Leisure

    Series series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
    This book, with its focus on the dancing body, is the first of its kind within the larger context of dance in India.The Dancing Body is a body that exists, survives, inhabits and performs in multiple space and time, by moving, laboring, migrating and straddling across geographic, cultural and emotional borders, writing different cultural meanings at different moments of time. In India, discourses ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Travels of Bollywood Cinema

    From Bombay to LA

    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 ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures

    Edited by Ulka Anjaria, Anjali Nerlekar ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures refutes the Anglocentrism of much literary criticism of the global South by examining "Indian Literature" as a multilingual, dialogic, and plural space constituted by both continuities and divergences. In forty-three chapters and with a team of scholars who exemplify the method of historically situated and theoretically rigorous literary criticism, ... Read more

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  • India's New Independent Cinema

    Rise of the Hybrid

    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    This is the first-ever book on the rise of the new wave of independent Indian films that is revolutionising Indian cinema. Contemporary scholarship on Indian cinema so far has focused asymmetrically on Bollywood—India’s dominant cultural export. Reversing this trend, this book provides an in-depth examination of the burgeoning independent Indian film sector. It locates the new 'Indies' as a glocal ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD