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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Bollywood"”.
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Bombay before Bollywood: the history and significance of fantasy and stunt film genres in Bombay cinema of the pre-Bollywood era
… as chapters within my monograph Bombay Before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies, which aimed to outline the contours of an alternative history of twentieth-century Bombay cinema. The ninth, which complements these, was published in an annual reader. This project eschews the conventional focus on …
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Bollywood Broads: Reconstructing the Femme Fatale in Popular Indian Film
… centers in the world. Its production of the "Bollywood" popular film has attracted billions in audience members outside the nation of India, many of whom do not belong to Indian culture in the Diaspora. The significance of this influence draws from the cross-cultural borrowings increasingly …
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Strictly Bollywood? : story, camera and movement in Hindi film dance
… dance sequences in films and their re-staging as Bollywood dances at South Asian cultural shows as a point of departure, I explore the analytical challenges of exploring dances in Hindi films as a first step towards a larger study of the cyclical migration of these dances to be conducted at a …
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Ethnography of Indian diaspora women watching Bollywood cinema in South Africa
… film industry based in Bombay (Mumbai), known as Bollywood, is owned by big business men who are highly patriarchal in their mindset. Since Bollywood Cinema is owned predominantly by Indian men, it is not surprising that their patriarchal values are reflected in the movies sponsored by them. Hindi …
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Bollywood and Colourism: Exploring the discourse of Blackness in Hindustani cinema
… line in Hindustani cinema still persists in Bollywood cinema as the gentrification of Hindustani cinema has generated solely a superficial change.
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Badnaam Women of Bollywood: The Combative Sexual Politics of Item Songs in India
<p>This study analyzes the controversial Bollywood convention “item number,” a vampy song with suggestive lyrics and hypersexualized imagery of dancing women, as a crucial cultural artefact reflecting the gender and sexual uneasiness in India. Sex avoidance is a common theme in Bollywood films and …
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Exploring the influence of Bollywood films on the identity of British second-generation South-Asian men
… participants, aged between 25-36, who watched Bollywood media, were interviewed regarding their experiences, and meaning making processes. Three superordinate themes emerged: 1) Bollywood films influencing world view and way of being, 2) British Asian sense of identity and Bollywood films and …
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Female Desire in Contemporary Indian Cinema
… the way women are conjunction with portrayed in Bollywood films in the development of female authorship, particularly in the last decade. The journey of women’s representation in Bollywood, from the homogeneous image of a m other, a sister and a wife who is submissive but can also dance or sing …
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American Desi : representation and reproduction in diaspora /
… textual analysis of three films: American Desi, Bollywood/Hollywood, and East Is East, helps frame the characteristics of South Asian diasporic film. Theoretical concepts of diaspora and identity are extended to this reading of the films. In-depth, open-ended, semi structured interviews were …
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Beyond postcolonial: expression of self and exploration of the infinite in the writing of Jorge Luis Borges
… Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, and film such as Bollywood or Nollywood offer perspective for students of English Literature on the struggle of Eastern writers and filmmakers for acceptance into the canon. Some critics, such as Edna Aizenberg, have addressed the question of whether postcolonialism …
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Reimagining Shakespeare: A Journey through Vishal Bhardwaj's Trilogy
… adaptations adhere to or subvert conventional Bollywood tropes and stereotypes. This investigation helps situate the trilogy within the broader framework of Hindi cinema. Moreover, the study contextualises Bhardwaj’s works within the global corpus of Shakespearean adaptations, highlighting the …
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Disturbed Areas: Literature and Emergency Law in Kashmir and Northern Ireland
… works by Anna Burns, Mirza Waheed, and Bollywood filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj. I argue that the literary mode can act as one of many methods of political agitation, but one with a unique capacity to connect the minutiae of lives lived under emergency law with the larger frames of history, …
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Videos in motion: Processes of Transnationalization in the Southern Nigerian Video Industry: Networks, Discourses, Aesthetics
… to other global film industries (such as Bollywood and Hollywood), and it has been criticized for its low production quality standards. The video phenomenon has been celebrated for some of its achievement, and mocked for some of its weaknesses. This complex interaction with the global …
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Lifting the Veil on Hindi Film Song Sequences: An Approach to Analysis
<p>This thesis seeks to augment previous scholarly research on Hindi film song through the presentation of a multivalent approach to thoroughly understanding and interpreting Hindi film song sequences. In a case study of the song sequence “Pardā Haı̃ Pardā” ("There Is a Veil,"? from Manmohan …