Preface A Note on Transliteration 1. Inventing Bombay Cinema 2. Melodramatic Staging 3. The Texts of Mother India 4. Auteurship and the Lure of Romance 5. The Actor as Parallel Text: Amitabh Bachchan 6 Segmenting/Analyzing Two Foundational Texts 7 Cinema After Ayodhya: The Sublime Object of Fundamentalism 8. Cinema and Diasporic Desire Filmography Photographs Bibliography
Vijay Mishra is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. He is author of The Gothic Sublime.
"...the particular strength of Bollywood Cinema, indeed, is the
plurality of critical perspectives brought to bear and the author's
ability to synthesize them into a coherent whole." -- James
Chapman, Film International
"...the book...rewards the reader with provocative ideas on a dozen
topics: anticolonial and postcolonial struggles, melodrama, gender
roles, patriarchal power, androgyny, gothic style, diaspora, and of
course particular movies (like Mother India) and stars (like
Amitabh Bachchan)." -- CHOICE, P.H. Stacy, University of
Hartford
"A masterly synthesis of existing scholarship on Bombay cinema as
well as a timely exploration of the growing importance that this
cinema is assuming in the Indian diaspora. . . . an engaging
study." -- Sumita Chakravarty, New School University
"Here, finally, is a book on Bollywood that is written for those
who have experienced Bollywood as well as those who are strangers
to that phenomenon. Mishra's analysis of Bollywood cinema is a
considerable one within a handful of such analyses emerging today
from within academe. It has in it something for the film historian,
the curious newcomer, the fan, and the critic." -- Sonora
Jh-Nambiar, Seattle University, Communication Research Trends
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