Bollywood And Postmodernism

Author : Neelam Sidhar Wright
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748696350
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bollywood and Postmodernism written by Neelam Sidhar Wright and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying postmodern concepts and locating postmodern motifs in key commercial Hindi films, this innovative study reveals how Indian cinema has changed in the 21st century.

Author : Biswal, Santosh Kumar
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799835138
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Social and Cultural Dynamics in Indian Cinema written by Biswal, Santosh Kumar and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema in India is an entertainment medium that is interwoven into society and culture at large. It is clearly evident that continuous struggle and conflict at the personal as well as societal levels is depicted in cinema in India. It has become a reflection of society both in negative and positive ways. Hence, cinema has become an influential factor and one of the largest mass communication mediums in the nation. Social and Cultural Dynamics in Indian Cinema is an essential reference source that discusses cultural and societal issues including caste, gender, oppression, and social movements through cinema and particularly in specific language cinema and culture. Featuring research on topics such as Bollywood, film studies, and gender equality, this book is ideally designed for researchers, academicians, film studies students, and industry professionals seeking coverage on various aspects of regional cinema in India.

Author : Shambhu Lal Doshi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Perspectives on Indian Society written by Shambhu Lal Doshi and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernity proposes the idea that society is no longer governed by history or progress. A postmodern society is highly pluralistic, differentiated, and diverse. It rejects all grand narratives such as Marxism, Gandhism, and rationalism, which are propagated as universal explanations of society. Postmodernity meets the challenges given by modernity. In India, modernity's benefits are cornered by high caste Hindus, elites, political leaders, and higher classes. The subalterns, the marginals, and the disadvantaged masses have been left high and dry. It is the modernity which has created religious, academic, and market fundamentalism and an age of dark dogma. In Indian society, modernity has brought damage to various ethnicities. In this book, the author applies the perspective of postmodernity to the interpretation of increasingly changing contemporary Indian society. With this, he looks afresh at family, caste, village, culture, and religion. From a sociological perspective, fundamentalism is given a thorough examination. The author courageously establishes that Indian society is a postmodern society.

Author : Sylvia Krenn
Publisher : diplom.de
ISBN 13 : 3863416449
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern and Oriental Elements in 'Moulin Rouge!': Film Analysis written by Sylvia Krenn and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Arbeit analysiert Baz Luhrmanns Film „Moulin Rouge!“ (2001) vor dem Hintergrund postmoderner und orientalischer Stilmittel in Literatur und Film. Moulin Rouge! ist nach Strictly Ballroom (1992) und William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (1996) das letzte Werk in Luhrmanns ‚Red Curtain Trilogy‘. Charakterisierend für diese Art des Filmschaffens ist, dass der Fokus auf der Art der Erzählung bzw. der Erzählform liegt, und nicht primär auf ihrem Inhalt. Moulin Rouge! verknüpft Elemente des amerikanischen Musicals der 40er und 50er Jahre mit europäischen Charthits der 1990er und Erzähltechniken aus Bollywood Filmen. Dabei spielt er mit postmodernen und poststrukturalistischen Phänomenen wie Intertextualität, mehreren Erzählebenen sowie der Selbstreflexivität der Figuren als auch der Geschichte. Der Film ist laut, bunt und hektisch. Kitsch oder Kunst oder beides - das bleibt eine Frage des Geschmacks.

Author : Bijay Kumar Das
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126902583
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Indian English Literature written by Bijay Kumar Das and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2003 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism In Indian English Literature Refers To The Works Of Literature After 1980. If Raja Rao S Kanthapura (1938) Marks Modernism, Salman Rushdie S Midnight S Children (1981) And Nissim Ezekiel S Latter-Day Psalms (1982) Mark Postmodernism In Indian English Literature. In This Book, Dr. Bijay Kumar Das Has Analysed Postmodern Indian English Literature Genre-Wise Poetry, Novel, Short Story, Drama And Autobiography. This Is A Critical History Of Indian English Literature In The Postmodern Period, Meant For Students, Researchers As Well As Teachers Who Seek An Introduction To It.

Author : Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317290747
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India's New Independent Cinema written by Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 hybrid film form—global in aesthetic and local in content. They critically engage with a diverse socio-political spectrum of ‘state of the nation’ stories; from farmer suicides, disenfranchised urban youth and migrant workers to monks turned anti-corporation animal rights agitators. This book provides comprehensive analyses of definitive Indie new wave films including Peepli Live (2010), Dhobi Ghat (2010), The Lunchbox (2013) and Ship of Theseus (2013). It explores how subversive Indies, such as polemical postmodern rap-musical Gandu (2010) transgress conventional notions of ‘traditional Indian values’, and collide with state censorship regulations. This timely and pioneering analysis shows how the new Indies have emerged from a middle space between India’s globalising present and traditional past. This book draws on in-depth interviews with directors, actors, academics and members of the Indian censor board, and is essential reading for anyone seeking an insight into a current Indian film phenomenon that could chart the future of Indian cinema.

Author : Veronica Ghirardi
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648892000
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Traces and Recent Hindi Novels written by Veronica Ghirardi and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism is a notoriously elusive concept and still the object of critical debates among scholars across a range of different disciplines. In literature, in particular, these debates are complicated by “postmodern” styles emanating from outside the concept’s Western origins. By analyzing contemporary Hindi novels, and drawing on both Western and Hindi literary criticism, "Postmodern Traces and Recent Hindi Novels" aims to understand some of the manifestations of postmodernism in contemporary Hindi fiction, including ways the latter might challenge the traditional parameters of postmodern literature. This book is essential reading for scholars and students specializing in South Asian studies and both postcolonial and comparative literature. It will also interest the general reader curious to know more about one of the less explored areas of world literature.

Author : Sylvia Krenn
Publisher : diplom.de
ISBN 13 : 3842821190
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oriental and Postmodern Elements in Moulin Rouge! written by Sylvia Krenn and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Introduction: The show will be a magnificent, opulent, tremendous, stupendous, gargantuan, bedazzlement! A sensual ravishment. It will be Spectacular, Spectacular . Zidler is right. That is what Moulin Rouge! is spectacular. Zidler, the impresario of the Moulin Rouge, tries to sell the bohemian play 'Spectacular, Spectacular', which Toulouse and Christian present to the Duke. However, Moulin Rouge! is 'Spectacular, Spectacular' and vice versa. The Duke is the maharajah, Christian is the penniless sitar player and Satine is the beautiful courtesan. Luhrmann's latest work is loud, colorful, fast, postmodern, a melodrama and a musical, and it is about love. Opinions are much divided over this film and many critics wonder if it is just bad taste and kitsch or an ingenious piece of film art. In other words, it is an original Baz Luhrmann. Until today, the Australian director produced three movies, which he calls the 'Red Curtain Trilogy'. He started with Strictly Ballroom in 1992, followed by William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in 1996 and ended with Moulin Rouge! in 2001. Luhrmann calls his way of filmmaking a theatricalized cinema style . Baz Luhrmann definitely is a unique and versatile character. However, if his film is art or trash remains a matter of opinion. Luhrmann himself disassociates from any categorization in the sense of low culture and high art, taking into account that back in time Shakespeare was also considered as popular culture in the same way, as operas were the lowest form of culture at their peak times. He counters his critics and their objections, die Story ist dünn und simpel , with, Doch gerade das ist eine Konvention des Musicals, aber auch der Oper, mit Ausnahme von Wagner. Aber eigentlich zieht auch Wagner nur einen dünnen Plot in die Länge. The other often expressed criticism that his latest work, is a direct assault on eyes, ears, and expectations (Abele), and hard to exceed in terms of kitsch, he only defies with the credo that, Persönlicher Geschmack ist der Feind der Kunst. . Moulin Rouge! is a mélange of film, music and dance. Set in 1899 but with contemporary music it is a work of extremes. Everything in this film seems to scream: 'anything goes!'. Nevertheless, Luhrmann follows a concept. Nothing in this film happens accidentally but it is his own style. Luhrmann's 'Red Curtain' style comprises several distinct storytelling choices. He uses a rather simple story, based on a well-known [...]

Author : Bijay Kumar Das
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788126902590
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Indian English Literature written by Bijay Kumar Das and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism in Indian English literature refers to the works of literature after 1980. If Raja Rao s Kanthapura (1938) marks modernism, Salman Rushdie s Midnight s Children (1981) and Nissim Ezekiel s Latter-Day Psalms (1982) mark postmodernism in India

Author : Sylvia Krenn
Publisher : Diplomarbeiten Agentur
ISBN 13 : 3863411447
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern and Oriental Elements in 'Moulin Rouge!': Film Analysis written by Sylvia Krenn and published by Diplomarbeiten Agentur. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Arbeit analysiert Baz Luhrmanns Film ?Moulin Rouge!? (2001) vor dem Hintergrund postmoderner und orientalischer Stilmittel in Literatur und Film. Moulin Rouge! ist nach Strictly Ballroom (1992) und William Shakespeare?s Romeo and Juliet (1996) das letzte Werk in Luhrmanns ?Red Curtain Trilogy?. Charakterisierend fr diese Art des Filmschaffens ist, dass der Fokus auf der Art der Erz„hlung bzw. der Erz„hlform liegt, und nicht prim„r auf ihrem Inhalt. Moulin Rouge! verknpft Elemente des amerikanischen Musicals der 40er und 50er Jahre mit europ„ischen Charthits der 1990er und Erz„hltechniken aus Bollywood Filmen. Dabei spielt er mit postmodernen und poststrukturalistischen Ph„nomenen wie Intertextualit„t, mehreren Erz„hlebenen sowie der Selbstreflexivit„t der Figuren als auch der Geschichte. Der Film ist laut, bunt und hektisch. Kitsch oder Kunst oder beides - das bleibt eine Frage des Geschmacks.