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Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema

Door Ira Bhaskar e.a.

Categorie	Film, Cinema & TV
Boeknummer	#389610-VG50
Titel	Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema
Auteur	Bhaskar, Ira & Richard Allen
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New Delhi : Tulika Books
Jaar van uitgave	2009
ISBN10	8189487531
ISBN13	9788189487539
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrated with numerous photographs in colour and b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	This book explores the Islamicate cultures that richly inform Bombay cinema. These cultures are imagined forms of the past and therefore a contested site of histories and identities. Yet they also form a culturally potent and aesthetically fertile reservoir of images and idioms through which Muslim communities are represented and represent themselves. Islamicate influences inform the language, poetry, music, ideas, and even the characteristic emotional responses elicited by Bombay cinema in general; however, the authors argue that it is in the three genre forms of The Muslim Historical. The Muslim Courtesan Film and The Muslim Social that these cultures are concentrated and distilled into precise iconographic, performative and narrative idioms. Furthermore, the authors argue that it is thr... (Lees verder)ough these three genres, and their critical re-working by New Wave filmmakers, that social and historical significance is attributed to Muslim cultures for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Ira Bhaskar is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Richard Allen is Professor and Chair of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Pagina's	346
Conditie	Goed
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