Unruly Cinema

Unruly Cinema
Title Unruly Cinema PDF eBook
Author Rini Bhattacharya Mehta
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 336
Release 2020-06-22
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0252052005

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Between 1931 and 2000, India's popular cinema steadily overcame Hollywood domination. Bollywood, the film industry centered in Mumbai, became nothing less than a global cultural juggernaut. But Bollywood is merely one part of the country's prolific, multilingual cinema. Unruly Cinema looks at the complex series of events that allowed the entire Indian film industry to defy attempts to control, reform, and refine it in the twentieth century and beyond. Rini Bhattacharya Mehta considers four aspects of Indian cinema's complicated history. She begins with the industry's surprising, market-driven triumph over imports from Hollywood and elsewhere in the 1930s. From there she explores how the nationalist social melodrama outwitted the government with its 1950s cinematic lyrical manifestoes. In the 1970s, an action cinema centered on the angry young male co-opted the voice of the oppressed. Finally, Mehta examines Indian film's discovery of the global neoliberal aesthetic that encouraged the emergence of Bollywood.

Unruly Media

Unruly Media
Title Unruly Media PDF eBook
Author Carol Vernallis
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 366
Release 2013-11
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0199767009

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Unruly Media is the first book to account for the current audiovisual landscape across media and platform. It includes new theoretical models and close readings of current media as well as the oeuvre of popular and influential directors.

Urban Images

Urban Images
Title Urban Images PDF eBook
Author Synne Bull
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9781934105405

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A collection of eleven new essays by internationally renowned scholars and artists navigating the vast interdisciplinary territory defined by visual art, architecture and the moving image.

The Unruly Woman

The Unruly Woman
Title The Unruly Woman PDF eBook
Author Kathleen Rowe Karlyn
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 283
Release 2011-01-20
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0292773234

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Unruly women have been making a spectacle of themselves in film and on television from Mae West to Roseanne Arnold. In this groundbreaking work, Kathleen Rowe explores how the unruly woman—often a voluptuous, noisy, joke-making rebel or "woman on top"—uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority. At the heart of the book are detailed analyses of two highly successful unruly women—the comedian Roseanne Arnold and the Muppet Miss Piggy. Putting these two figures in a deeper cultural perspective, Rowe also examines the evolution of romantic film comedy from the classical Hollywood period to the present, showing how the comedic roles of actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, and Marilyn Monroe offered an alternative, empowered image of women that differed sharply from the "suffering heroine" portrayed in classical melodramas.

Spanish Cinema against Itself

Spanish Cinema against Itself
Title Spanish Cinema against Itself PDF eBook
Author Steven Marsh
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 270
Release 2020-02-11
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0253046343

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Spanish Cinema against Itself maps the evolution of Spanish surrealist and politically committed cinematic traditions from their origins in the 1930s—with the work of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, experimentalist José Val de Omar, and militant documentary filmmaker Carlos Velo—through to the contemporary period. Framed by film theory this book traces the works of understudied and non-canonical Spanish filmmakers, producers, and film collectives to open up alternate, more cosmopolitan and philosophical spaces for film discussion. In an age of the post-national and the postcinematic, Steven Marsh's work challenges conventional historiographical discourse, the concept of "national cinema," and questions of form in cinematic practice.

Evacuee Cinema

Evacuee Cinema
Title Evacuee Cinema PDF eBook
Author Salma Siddique
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 278
Release 2022-11-30
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1009151207

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This book will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian history and popular culture. It examines partition's impact on cultural production, based on hard to access archives and collections situated in India, Pakistan, United Kingdom and the United States.

Indian Cinema

Indian Cinema
Title Indian Cinema PDF eBook
Author Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 161
Release 2016
Genre Art
ISBN 0198723091

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The Indian cinema sells 2.9 billion movie tickets annually, the largest in the world. Yet, as an economic entity, the Indian movie industry remains small, with an annual revenue that is 5% of Hollywood's. This volume throws light on the history of Indian cinema and the circumstances that saw the birth of one of the world's great countercultures.