The Secret Politics of Our Desires

The Secret Politics of Our Desires
Author: Ashis Nandy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1998
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781856495165

This book examines the enormous industry of Indian popular cinema. It provokes a thinking of cinema as political in the widest sense - from its importance in ideas of nation and national cultural formation to class and gender.

Criminality and Power in the Postcolonial City

Criminality and Power in the Postcolonial City
Author: Maria Ridda
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2022-11-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351398121

This book investigates the literary imaginings of the postcolonial city through the lens of crime in texts set in Naples and Mumbai from the 1990s to the present. Employing the analogy of a ‘black hole,’ it posits the discourse on criminality as a way to investigate the contemporary spatial manifestations of coloniality and global capitalist urbanity. Despite their different histories, Mumbai and Naples have remarkable similarities. Both are port cities, ‘gateways’ to their countries and regional trade networks, and both are marked by extreme wealth and poverty. They are also the sites and symbolic battlegrounds for a wider struggle in which ‘the North exploits the South, and the South fights back.’ As one of the characters of the novel The Neapolitan Book of the Dead puts it, a narrativisation of the underworld allows for a ‘discovery of a different city from its forgotten corners.’ Crime provides a means to understand the relationship between space and society/culture in a number of cities across the Global South, by tracing a narrative of postcolonial urbanity that exposes the connections between exploitation and the ongoing ‘coloniality of power.’

Popular Cinema and Politics in South India

Popular Cinema and Politics in South India
Author: S. Rajanayagam
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2015-06-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317587723

This work breaks new ground in the understanding of South Indian cinema and politics. Through incisive analysis and original concepts it illustrates the private, public and cinematic personas of MGR and Rajinikanth. It challenges the popular and scholarly myths surrounding them and shows the constant negotiation of their on-screen and off-screen identities. The book revisits the entire political history of post-Independent Tamil Nadu through its cinema,and presents a refreshing psycho-political and cultural map of contemporary South India. This absorbing volume will be an important read for scholars, teachers and students of film studies, culture and media studies, and politics, especially those interested in South India.

The Political Economy of South Asian Diaspora

The Political Economy of South Asian Diaspora
Author: G. Pillai
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137285974

The South Asian diaspora is a diverse group who settled in different parts of the world, often concentrated in developed countries. This volume explores how transnational politics overlap with religious ideologies, media and culture amongst the diaspora, contributing to diasporic identity building in host countries.

Postcolonial Cultures

Postcolonial Cultures
Author: Simon Featherstone
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781578067718

An overview of postcolonial studies and current thought on literature, tourism, and popular culture

Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas

Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas
Author: K. Moti Gokulsing
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 741
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 113677291X

India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After years of marginalisation by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the centre of the world cinema in a comparatively short space of time. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars in the field, this Handbook looks at the complex reasons for this remarkable journey. Combining a historical and thematic approach, the Handbook discusses how Indian cinemas need to be understood in their historical unfolding as well as their complex relationships to social, economic, cultural, political, ideological, aesthetic, technical and institutional discourses. The thematic section provides an up-to-date critical narrative on diverse topics such as audience, censorship, film distribution, film industry, diaspora, sexuality, film music and nationalism. The Handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting edge survey of Indian cinemas, discussing Popular, Parallel/New Wave and Regional cinemas as well as the spectacular rise of Bollywood. It is an invaluable resource for students and academics of South Asian Studies, Film Studies and Cultural Studies.

Filmurbia

Filmurbia
Author: David Forrest
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2017-04-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137531754

In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on film. By the mid-20th Century, supported by changes in transportation, suburbs became the primary location of entire national populations and films about the suburbs began to concertedly reflect those suburbs’ significance as well as their increasingly lively cultures! Suburbia very soon became filmurbia, as films of the suburbs and those made in the suburbs reflected both the positive and the negative aspects of burgeoning suburban life. Film-makers explored the existences of new suburbanites, their interests, their newly emerging neighbourhood practices, their foibles, their fantasies and their hopes. Whether depicting love, ambition, commerce, family, home or horror, whether traveling to or living in suburban spaces, whether exhibiting beauty, brazenness or brutality, the films of suburbia capture human life in all its diverse guises.

Queer Activism in India

Queer Activism in India
Author: Naisargi N. Dave
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2012-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822353199

This book examines the creation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s through the early 2000s and explores the everyday practices that comprise queer activism in India.

Violent Belongings

Violent Belongings
Author: Kavita Daiya
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2011-02-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 159213744X

Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards in order to offer a new, historical account of how gender and ethnicity came to determine who belonged, and how, in the postcolonial Indian nation.

Streaming Video

Streaming Video
Author: Amanda D. Lotz
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2023-05-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1479816841

An international team of experts explores how streaming services are disrupting traditional storytelling. The rise of streaming has dramatically transformed how audiences consume media. Over the last decade, subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services, including Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+, have begun commissioning and financing their own original movies and TV shows, changing the way and the rate at which content is produced across the globe, from Mexico City to Mumbai. Streaming Video maps this international production boom and what it means for producers, audiences, and storytellers. Through eighteen richly textured case studies, ranging from original Korean dramas on Netflix to BluTV’s experimental Turkish series, the book investigates how streaming services both disrupt and maintain storytelling traditions in specific national contexts. To what extent, and how, are streamers expanding norms of television and film storytelling in different parts of the world? Are streamers enabling the creation of content that would not otherwise exist? What are the implications for different viewers, in different countries, with different tastes? Together, the chapters critically assess the impacts of streaming on twenty-first century audiovisual storytelling and rethink established understandings of transnational screen flows.