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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Indian cinema"”.
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Female Desire in Contemporary Indian Cinema
… beautifully to the independent woman in ‘new cinema’, has been arduous and is not over yet. In this thesis, I focus on the emerging female writers/directors whose whole works subvert t he conventional standards of narrative and character building. This work aims to combine feminist …
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Real to Reel: The "Third Gender" Narratives and Queer Identity in Rituparno Ghosh's Bengali Films
… and community that were previously erased from Indian history and helped to create a politically safe space for the transgender community to express themselves. His films revived and recontextualized the portrayal of the “third gender” in Indian cinema, juxtaposing the traditional cultural …
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Strictly Bollywood? : story, camera and movement in Hindi film dance
… 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 emulated in staged performances in India and …
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The poetics of the real and aesthetics of the reel
… that the spread of photography and popular cinema in 19th- and 20th-century-India have shaped an aesthetic and affective code integral to the reading and interpretation of Indian English novels, particularly when they address photography and/or cinema film, as in the case of the four corpus …
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The Digital Turn in Indian Film Sound: Ontologies and Aesthetics
… and norms of image-sound relationships in Indian cinema in comparison with similar practices from Euro-American film industries. I analysed nearly 60 hours of interviews I conducted with sound practitioners in India, examined trade magazines, online journals, the personal blogs of …
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Cinema and the Urdu Public Sphere: Literary imaginaries in the making of film cultures in north India (1930-50)
… the narrative and aesthetic vocabularies of cinematic practice in India. While film scholars have recognized the role of Urdu in film dialogues and lyrics, few have attempted to understand the crucial processes by which film culture was fashioned within the Urdu public sphere. This …
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Subjectivities in Decolonisation: The Post-Independence Film and Novel in Africa and South Asia
… that women’s subjectivities pose to Kenyan and Indian projects of anti-colonial nationalism in A Grain of Wheat (1967) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Home and the World (1984) by Satyajit Ray respectively; chapter three, how postcolonial elites’ crises of subjectivity entrench neocolonial material …