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  • Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India

    de Roos Gerritsen ...
    Series series Asian Visual Cultures
    In Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India, Gerritsen explores the circulation of images of a movie star named Rajinikanth. Cities and towns in the south Indian state Tamil Nadu are consistently ornamented with huge billboards, murals and myriad posters featuring political leaders as well as movie stars. A selective part of these images is put up by their fan clubs. Tamil movie ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Food, Senses and the City

    Edición de Ferne Edwards, Roos Gerritsen, Grit Wesser ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    This work explores diverse cultural understandings of food practices in cities through the senses, drawing on case studies in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.The volume includes the senses within the popular field of urban food studies to explore new understandings of how people live in cities and how we can understand cities through food. It reveals how the senses can provide unique ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

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  • Tamil Cinema

    The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry

    Edición de Selvaraj Velayutham ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output. This book examines critically the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. It outlines its history and distinctive characteristics, and proceeds to consider a number of important ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Haunting Bollywood

    Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema

    de Meheli Sen ...
    Haunting Bollywood is a pioneering, interdisciplinary inquiry into the supernatural in Hindi cinema that draws from literary criticism, postcolonial studies, queer theory, history, and cultural studies. Hindi commercial cinema has been invested in the supernatural since its earliest days, but only a small segment of these films have been adequately explored in scholarly work; this book addresses ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Unlearning the City

    Infrastructure in a New Optical Field

    de Swati Chattopadhyay ...
    Cities are more than concrete and steel infrastructure. But modern urban theory does not have the language to describe and debate the vital component of urban life that is lived on the streets of cities and towns. Swati Chattopadhyay has written a nuanced argument for a new vocabulary of the city in Unlearning the City, proposing a way of analyzing the materiality of the urban that captures the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Being Dead Otherwise

    de Anne Allison ...
    With an aging population, declining marriage and childbirth rates, and a rise in single households, more Japanese are living and dying alone. Many dead are no longer buried in traditional ancestral graves where descendants would tend their spirits, and individuals are increasingly taking on mortuary preparation for themselves. In Being Dead Otherwise Anne Allison examines the emergence of new ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Orienting Hollywood

    A Century of Film Culture between Los Angeles and Bombay

    de Nitin Govil ...
    Series Libro 6 - Critical Cultural Communication
    A new understanding of the culturally rich and historic relationship between Hollywood and Bollywood.With American cinema facing intense technological and financial challenges both at home and abroad, and with Indian media looking to globalize, there have been numerous high-profile institutional connections between Hollywood and Bombay cinema in the past few years. Many accounts have proclaimed ... Leer más

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  • Bombay Hustle

    Making Movies in a Colonial City

    de Debashree Mukherjee ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial and compelling role in the life of modern India. Bombay Hustle presents an ambitious history of Indian cinema as a history of material practice, bringing new insights to studies of media, modernity, and ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Bollywood Travels

    Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema

    de Rajinder Dudrah ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, popular cultures, and media and entertainment industries from the popular Hindi cinema of India. It analyses and discusses a range of key contemporary films in detail, such as Veer Zaara, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, and Dostana.The book uses the notion of travel ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • The Tôkaidô Road

    Travelling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan

    de Jilly Traganou ...
    The Tôkaidô Road offers a comparative study of the Tôkaidô road's representations during the Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) eras. Throughout the Edo era, the Tôkaidô highway was the most important route of Japan and transportation was confined to foot travel. In 1889, the Tôkaidô Railway was established, at first paralleling and eventually almost eliminating the use of the highway. During ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Bollywood's India

    A Public Fantasy

    de Priya Joshi ...
    Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and fabricate public fantasies of what constitutes "India." Written by an award-winning scholar of popular culture and postcolonial modernity, Bollywood's India analyzes the role of the cinema's most popular ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD