Nandana Bose

Madhuri Dixit (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A wide-ranging account of the Indian film star Madhuri Dixit, one of the most popular actresses of Hindi cinema. Nandana Bose's study traces Dixit's twenty-five year career, exploring her star persona, her indelible impact on Indian popular culture, and her continuing popularity even in middle age. Nandana Bose discusses Dixit's unusual and distinctive career trajectory that upends pre-existing models of female stardom, by marrying at the peak of her career, withdrawing from the limelight for years, and then returning to extend her career into her early fifties by reinventing herself as a transmedia celebrity for a new generation. However, it is her unique talent as a dancer, and her innovative choreographic styles and repertoire of movements that make her standout from other Hindi film stars. Surveying Dixit's film-making career, Bose argues that she represents a wholesome and traditional figure of femininity that has resonated across class and cultural hierarchies at a time of great economic and social change in India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781911239154
• Artikelnr.: 57997744

Autorenporträt

Dr. Nandana Bose is Associate Professor at the Foundation for Liberal Arts and Management Education (FLAME) in Pune, India. She was Associate Professor at the Department of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), USA from 2009 to 2017. She has been published in such journals as Cinema Journal, Celebrity Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Velvet Light Trap, and Studies in South Asian Film and Media, and anthologies such as Figurations in Indian Film (2010), Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship Around the World (2013), and Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors and their Cinema (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTION INDIA'S DHAK-DHAK/HEARTBEAT GIRL: RISE TO STARDOM A ZEITGEIST ICON THE DANCING STAR FROM STAR TO CELEBRITY NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY FILMOGRAPHY INDEX