The "Slumdog" Phenomenon

A Critical Anthology
Herausgeber: Gehlawat, Ajay

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Produktbeschreibung

Featuring a dynamic combination of landmark essays by leading critics and theorists, "The 'Slumdog' Phenomenon: A Critical Anthology" addresses multiple issues relating to "Slumdog Millionaire," providing new ways of looking at this controversial film.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781783083251
• ISBN-10: 1783083255
• Artikelnr.: 41375752

Autorenporträt

Ajay Gehlawat is assistant professor of theatre and film in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The
"Slumdog" Phenomenon - Ajay Gehlawat; "SLUMDOG" AND THE NATION: Chapter 1:
National Allegory - Brian Larkin; Chapter 2: "Slumdog Millionaire" and the
Emerging Centrality of India - Sharmila Mukherjee; Chapter 3: Slumlord
Aesthetics and the Question of Indian Poverty - Nandini Chandra; Chapter 4:
Watching Time: "Slumdog Millionaire" and National Ontology - Lakshmi
Padmanabhan; "SLUMDOG" AND THE SLUM: Chapter 5: "Slumdog Millionaire" and
Epistemologies of the City - Ulka Anjaria and Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria;
Chapter 6: A Million Dollar Exit from the Slum-World: "Slumdog
Millionaire"'s Troubling Formula for Social Justice - Mitu Sengupta;
Chapter 7: Slumdogs and Millionaires: Facts and Fictions of Indian
(Under)development - Snehal Shingavi; "SLUMDOG" AND BOLLYWOOD: Chapter 8:
Slumdogs, Coolies and Gangsters: Amitabh Bachchan and the Legacy of 1970s
Bollywood in "Slumdog Millionaire" - Claus Tieber; Chapter 9: "It is
Written" (in Invisible Ink): "Slumdog Millionaire"'s SFX and the Realist
Overwriting of Bollywood Spectacle - Samhita Sunya; "SLUMDOG"'S RECEPTIONS:
Chapter 10: Why the Sun Shines on "Slumdog" - Anandam Kavoori; Chapter 11:
"Slumdog" Celebrities - Priya Jaikumar; Chapter 12: "Slumdog Millionaire"
and the New Middlebrow - Robert Koehler; Chapter 13: Slumdog Comprador:
Coming to Terms with the "Slumdog" Phenomenon - Ajay Gehlawat; Chapter 14:
The Life-Cycle of "Slumdog Millionaire" on the Web - Thomas Elsaesser and
Warren Buckland; Conclusion: Jai Who? - Ajay Gehlawat; Select Bibliography;
Films Cited; Index