Bending the Bharata / Philip Lutgendorf -- Family, feminism, and film in remaking the Ramayana / Vidyut Aklujkar -- Sakuntala / Gayatri Chatterjee -- Mrcchakatikam to Utsav / Vidyut Aklujkar -- Bhakti songs recast / Heidi Pauwels -- Religious culture and folklore in the Urdu historical drama Anarkali, revisited by Indian cinema / Alain D'Soulires -- From Ghazal to film music / Naseem Hines -- Remembering, repeating, and working through Devdas / Corey K. Creekmur -- The political aesthetic of nation and gender in Rituparno Ghosh's Chokher -- Bali / Mandakranta Bose -- Lyrically speaking / Ali Mir -- Dharmputra and the partition of India / Cecilia Cossio.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"This book is about the popular cinema of North India ("Bollywood") and how it recasts literary classics. It addresses questions about the interface of film and literature, such as how Bollywood movies rework literary themes, offer different (broader or narrower) interpretations, shift plots, stories, and characters to accommodate the medium and the economics of the genre, sometimes even changing the way literature is read. This book addresses the socio-political implications of popular reinterpretations of "elite culture", exploring gender issues and the perceived "sexism" of the North Indian popular film and how that plays out when literature is reworked into film." -- BOOK JACKET.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Indic literature-- Film adaptations.
Motion picture industry-- India.
Motion pictures-- India.
18.65 middle and modern Indian language and/or literature.