Indian Film Stars

New Critical Perspectives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvMichael Lawrence,UK) Lawrence, Michael (University of Sussex

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-05-28
Mått194 x 248 x 16 mm
Vikt740 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781844578559

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1. Amboo: Enacting Speed and Risk—Film Genre, Female Performance and the Indian Stunt Film; Anupama Kapse.- 2. K.L. Saigal: From Street Singer to Tansen; Neepa Majumdar.- 3. The Lady and the Tramp: The Star Couple of Raj Kapoor and Nargis; Rachel Dwyer.- 4. Johnny Walker: Every Man's Comic Star; Radha Dayal.- 5. Dharmendra: A Critical Study of the Eclipse of a Classical Hindi Film Star; Anustup Basu.- 6. From Son of India to Teen King: Sajid Khan and Transnational Stardom; Meenasarani Murugun.- 7. Goodbye Neverland: Child Star Rattan Kumar and the Move to Pakistan; Salma Siddique.- 8. Star's 'Dust': Miss Kumari and the Fossilized Memory of the 'First Malayalam Female Star'; Darshana Sreedhar.- 9. The Chin Chin Chu Girl: Helen and the Scandalous Other of Popular Hindi Cinema; Sudesh Mishra.- 10. 'She's Everything that's Unpardonable': Hema Malini, Dream Girl on a Motorbike; Rosie Thomas.- 11. Rajkumar and Kannada Cinema; M K Raghavendra.- 12. 'The Queen of Comedy': The Voice and Comic Performances of Sridevi in Popular Hindi Film; Nandana Bose.- 13. Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha: Stardom and Scandal before and after Silsila (1980); Michael Lawrence.- 14. The Feudal Lord Reincarnate: Mohanlal and the Politics of Masculinity in Malayalam Cinema; Meena T. Pillai.- 15. 'The B Grade King': Mithun Chakraborty and the Politics of Cult Stardom, Iain Robert Smith.- 16. The Other Street Singer: Kanan Devi, the Unsung Co-star of Barua and Saigal; Ranita Chatterjee.- 17. The Irrepressible Badness of Salman Khan; Shohini Ghosh.- 18. Harbhajan Maan: the Transnational Migrant Success Story of Punjabi Cinema; Harjant S. Gill.- 19. 'SRK Starring as SRK'—King Khan's Performance Style: Audience Expectations and the Emergence of Self-Parody; Charlie Henniker.

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