Figurations in Indian Film

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Meheli Sen

      Pages 1-18

3. Political and Typological Figures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Sensate Outlaws: The Recursive Social Bandit in Indian Popular Cultures

      • Bishnupriya Ghosh

      Pages 21-43

   3. What Happened to Khadi? Dress and Costume in Bombay Cinema

      • Anupama Kapse

      Pages 44-66

   4. Configuring the Other: The Detective and the Real in Satyajit Ray’s Chiriakhana

      • Gautam Basu Thakur

      Pages 67-88

4. Generic Mutations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Diverting Diseases

      • M. Madhava Prasad

      Pages 91-100

   3. Nevla as Dracula: Figurations of the Tantric as Monster in the Hindi Horror Film

      • Usha Iyer

      Pages 101-115

   4. Haunted Havelis and Hapless Heroes: Gender, Genre, and the Hindi Gothic Film

      • Meheli Sen

      Pages 116-136

5. Star Figures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. “The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships”: Helen and Public Femininity in Hindi Film

      • Anustup Basu

      Pages 139-157

   3. From Superman to Shahenshah: Stardom and the Transnational Corporeality of Hrithik Roshan

      • Nandana Bose

      Pages 158-178

   4. Con-figurations: The Body as World in Bollywood Stardom

      • Sumita S. Chakravarty

      Pages 179-201

6. Figuring (out) New Bollywood

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. Metafiguring Bollywood: Brecht after Om Shanti Om

      • Bhaskar Sarkar

      Pages 205-235

   3. Bodies in Syncopation

      • Moinak Biswas

      Pages 236-252

   4. Between Violetta and Vasantasena Is Toulouse-Lautrec: Cinematic Avatars and Bollywood in Moulin Rouge!

      • Kirsten Strayer

      Pages 253-267

7. Afterword

   1. Afterword

      • Meheli Sen, Anustup Basu

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8. Back Matter

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This volume brings together a series of essays that interrogate the notion of figuration in Indian cinemas. The essays collectively argue that the figures which exhibit maximum tenacity in Indian cinema often emerge in the interface of recognizable binaries: self/other, Indian/foreign, good/bad, virtue/vice, myth/reality and urban/rural.

• argue
• Bertolt Brecht
• body
• Brecht
• cinema
• corpus
• culture
• essay
• film
• gender
• genre
• gothic
• India
• Indian
• myth

• Rutgers University, USA

  Meheli Sen

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

  Anustup Basu

Anustup Basu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Gautam Basu Thakur, Boise State University, USA Moinak Biswas, Jadavpur University, India Nandana Bose, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA Sumita Chakravarty, The New School, USA Bishnupriya Ghosh, UC Santa Barbara, USA Usha Iyer, University of Pittsburgh, USA Anupama Kapse, Queens College, USA M. Madhava Prasad, University of Hyderabad, India Bhaskar Sarkar UC Santa Barbara, USA Meheli Sen, Rutgers University, USA Kirsten Strayer, University of Pittsburgh, USA

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