Bollywood’s Corporeal Turn

The book offers an original perspective on the reception of Bollywood cinema by opening up new vistas and new sensibilities with visceral or corporeal immediacy. With a firm grasp of the complete filmic archive, the book brings new and original insights into Bollywood’s dominant genres, notably the mythological, the Arabian Nights fantasies, the sentimental, the gothic ‘Uncanny’ and the new avant-garde. The work imbricates aesthetic response with lived experience, the latter always defined by a sense of loss, nostalgia and ‘unbelonging’.