Beschreibung:
Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the cinema as motivated by an ongoing crisis of self-formation in modern India.
Introduction 1. Structure, Event and Liminal Practices in Recent Hindi Films 2. Imagining the Past in the Present: Violence, Gender, and Citizenship in Hindi Films 3. The Man Formerly Known as the Actor: When Shah Rukh Khan Reappeared as Himself 4. Romancing Religion: Bollywood's Painless Globalization 5. Love Triangles at Home and Abroad: Male Embodiment as Queer Enactment