Routledge Handbook of South Asian Cinemas (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gehlawat, Ajay; Beaster-Jones, Jayson

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Cinemas is the first collection of original contributions to comprehensively analyze one of the most diverse and prolific cinema-producing regions of the world. It features chapters by up-and-coming and established scholars from a diverse array of academic specialties that survey South Asian cinemas, placing an emphasis on new, emerging, and underexplored cinematic terrains.

The handbook is organized in two parts: Regions and Themes. The first part examines the film industries from a regional perspective, including the cinemas of various Indian languages, in conjunction with the cinemas of other South Asian countries, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The second part examines issues, themes, and practices that cut across regions, including distribution platforms, audiences, song and dance, and gender and sexuality.

A crucial intervention in the field of South Asian Cinema Studies, this handbook is an essential reference work for students and researchers of Asian cinema, film and culture and a significant contribution to South Asian Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040767894
• Artikelnr.: 76007483

Autorenporträt

Ajay Gehlawat is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Theatre and Film at Sonoma State University, USA. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of several studies of popular Hindi cinema. Jayson Beaster-Jones is Professor of Music at the University of California, Merced, USA. He is the author of several books, including Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Redefining 'South Asian Cinema' by Ajay Gehlawat and
Jayson Beaster-Jones PART I: REGIONS Bangladesh 2. Women, War and Cinema in
Banglades by Elora Halim Chowdhury Bhutan 3. Dreams and Illusions:
Contemporary Bhutanese Cinema by Ivan Stacy India 4. Acts of Possession:
Gender, Wealth and Spectral Justice in Bengali Cinema by Meheli Sen 5.
Anaarkali of Aarah and the Trouble with Being Bhojpuri: Citation and
Differentiation in the Formation of Language Industries by Kathryn Hardy
6. Bollywood Cinema by Lucia Krämer 7. The Geopolitics of Kannada Language
Cinema by MK Raghavendra 8. Marathi Cinema: Region, Space and Historical
Reflexivity by Hrishikesh Ingle 9. Punjabi Cinema by Harjant S. Gill 10.
Post-Regional Tamil Cinema by Selvaraj Velayutham and Vijay Devadas Nepal
11. The Quest for Maulikta in Nepali cinema by Dikshya Karki Pakistan 12.
Martial law and the emergence of a new Pakistani cinema (1970s-1980s) by
Syeda Momina Massood 13. Fighters and Monsters in Pakistani Women's Cinema:
Feminocentric Heroism in Urdu and Pashto Genres, 1980s/90s by Esha Niyogi
De 14. Constructing Gender in New Pakistani Cinema (2013-2024) by Zebunnisa
Hamid Sri Lanka 15. Beyond Conflict in Sri Lankan CInema by Ian Conrich
PART II: THEMES Streaming/ Audience/ Politics 16. OTT Services in India by
Nandana Bose 17. A Film That Does Not Exist: Tees, Hindutva and the
Politics of Streaming by Sarunas Paunksnis 18. Caste In-Visibility: Dalit
Representation in Hindi Films and SVOD Content by Runa Chakraborty
Paunksnis 19. Story, Sound and Spectacle Signifying Everything: Bollywood
and the Indian Diaspora by Anjali Ram 20. 'Jhoome Jo Pathaan', the Hook
Step and the Political Potential of Virality by Anaar Desai-Stephens Music
and Dance by 21. Rhythm and Algorithm: Reality TV, Item numbers and the
Poetics of Remix Pallabi Chakravorty 22. Kuchipudi and the Telugu Film
Industry by Rumya Putcha 23. Watching Nepali Songs: A Brief History of
Music Videos in Nepal by Anna Stirr Gender and Sexuality 24. The Price of
Love: The Feminist Heroine of the Bollywood Romantic Comedy by Namrata Rele
Sathe 25. Male Sexuality in South Asian Cinema: Sovereign Masculinity and
Its Vicissitudes by Baidurya Chakrabarti 26. Malayalam Soft-Porn and
Discursive Networks of the 'Sex-Siren' by Darshana Sreedhar Mini 27.
Conclusion: All the other -ollywoods by Ajay Gehlawat