Michael Lawrence

Indian Film Stars (eBook, PDF)

New Critical Perspectives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Indian Film Stars offers original insights and important reappraisals of film stardom in India from the early talkie era of the 1930s to the contemporary period of global blockbusters. The collection represents a substantial intervention to our understanding of the development of film star cultures in India during the 20th and 21st centuries.
The contributors seek to inspire and inform further inquiries into the histories of film stardom-the industrial construction and promotion of star personalities, the actual labouring and imagined lifestyles of professional stars, the stars' relationship to specific aesthetic cinematic conventions (such as frontality and song-dance) and production technologies (such as the play-back system and post-synchronization), and audiences' investment in and devotion to specific star bodies-across the country's multiple centres of film production and across the overlapping (and increasingly international) zones of the films' distribution and reception. The star images, star bodies and star careers discussed are examined in relation to a wide range of issues, including the negotiation and contestation of tradition and modernity, the embodiment and articulation of both Indian and non-Indian values and vogues; the representation of gender and sexuality, of race and ethnicity, and of cosmopolitan mobility and transnational migration; innovations and conventions in performance style; the construction and transformation of public persona; the star's association with film studios and the mainstream media; the star's relationship with historical, political and cultural change and memory; and the star's meaning and value for specific (including marginalised) sectors of the audience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781911239932
• Artikelnr.: 59497488

Autorenporträt

Michael LAWRENCE is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Sabu (2014) and co-editor of The Zoo and Screen Media: Images of Exhibition and Encounter (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Michael Lawrence 1. Shanta Apte and the Unexpected: Anupama
Kapse 2. Confessions of Indian Cinema's First Woman Superstar: Kanan Devi's
Memoirs, Film History and Digital Archives: Ranita Chatterjee 3. Star's
"Dust": Miss Kumari and the Fossilized Memory of the 'First Malayalam
Female Star': Darshana Sreedhar Mini 4. In the Wink of an eye: The Comedic
Universe of Johnny Walker in the 1950s: Radha Dayal 5. Dharmendra Singh
Deol: Masculinity and the Late-Nehruvian Hero in Hindi Cinema: Anustup Basu
6. Rajkumar and the Kannada Language Film: M.K. Raghavendra 7. The Feudal
Lord Reincarnate: Mohanlal and the Poltiics of Malayali Masculinity: Meena
T. Pillai 8. From Gandhi to Jinnah: National Dilemmas in the Stardom of
Rattan Kumar: Salma Siddique 9. From Son of India to Teen King: Sajid Khan
and Transnational Stardom: Meenasarani Linde Murugan 10. Harbhajan Maan:
The Transnational Migrant Success Story of Punjabi Cinema: Harjant S. Gill
11. Helen: The Chin Chin Chu Girl: Sudesh Mishra 12. 'She's Everything
That's Unpardonable': Hema Malini, Dream Girl on a Motorbike: Rosie Thomas
13. Sridevi, Queen of Farce: Comedy, Performance and Star Persona in
Popular Hindi Cinema: Nandana Bose 14: The Irresistible Badness of Salman
Khan: Shohini Ghosh 15. Shah Rukh Khan Starring as Shah Rukh Khan:
Performance Style, Audience Expectation and Self-Parody Charlie Henniker
16. The Curious Case of Katrina Kaif: NRI Stardom and Ethnicity in
Bollywood Midath Hayder Notes on contributors Index