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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Hindi film"”.
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Strictly Bollywood? : story, camera and movement in Hindi film dance
Film dances, or filmed dance sequences accompanying film songs, are an important part of popular Indian cinema. Over the years, Hindi film dance has evolved from a cinematically simplistic, filmed documentation of performance traditions, to a recognized and increasingly respected dance category …
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Lifting the Veil on Hindi Film Song Sequences: An Approach to Analysis
… 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 Desai's 1977 film …
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Hindi filmigit: On the history of commercial Indian popular music
This study traces the musical development of the Hindi film song from the beginning of Indian sound film in 1931 to the present day, with an emphasis on the years 1931-55. Based largely on fieldwork carried out within the Bombay film industry in 1982-83, this dissertation addresses questions that …
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Indian-American self-representation : transmission of culture through the entertainment medium of film
This study examined Hindi film representations of people of Indian origin residing outside India, Hollywood film representations of people of Indian ethnicity in America, as well as self-representation in Indian-American films. The researcher used the quantitative methodology of content analysis to …
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Bollywood and Colourism: Exploring the discourse of Blackness in Hindustani cinema
… Eventually, it looks into casting patterns of Hindi film directors with skin colour as a determining factor informing narratives, shaping ideological codes, dictating beauty ideals and perpetuating cinematic dogmas. It also investigates the link between Colourism and race through an exploration …
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Naya Jeevan, concerto for double bass and wind ensemble
Naya Jeevan, meaning new life in Hindi, is a twenty-four minute, two-movement concerto for double bass and wind ensemble. While the two movements vary drastically in mood, texture, and tone, they both explore intensity and the ebb and flow of energy using repetition, extensive heterophony, and …
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Badnaam Women of Bollywood: The Combative Sexual Politics of Item Songs in India
… Sex avoidance is a common theme in Bollywood films and in the country, where media and people are heavily censored and policed by anti-Romeo squads under the Modi administration. The item girl breaks the sexual tension with a mega hit song and hook step that fuels the economy of dance and …
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The poetics of the real and aesthetics of the reel
… when they address photography and/or cinema film, as in the case of the four corpus texts. In analyzing the nexus between ‘real’ and ‘reel’, the dissertation shows how the texts address the reader as media consumer and virtual image projector. Furthermore, the study discusses the Indian …