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  • The Routledge Handbook of Indian Indie Cinema

    Edited by Jayjit Sarkar, Anik Sarkar ...
    This handbook offers a critical introduction to Indian Indie cinema, exploring its subversion of dominant ideas, aesthetics and narratives; its inclusion of marginal and alternative experiences and ideologies; its relationship with audiences; and its defiance of norms followed by commercial Bollywood cinema.It takes a critical look at independent and alternative films in India that cover a wide ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Trans(in)fusion and Contemporary Thought

    Thinking in Migration

    by Jayjit Sarkar, Arka Chattopadhyay, Maria Carmen África Vidal Claramonte, Olivier Hercend, James Martell, Emelia Quinn, Erik S. Roraback, Heather H. Yeung, Ranjan Ghosh ...
    Trans(in)fusion and Contemporary Thought: Thinking in Migration engages with Ranjan Ghosh’s concept of trans(in)fusion and critical theory. Trans(in)fusion reexamines critical thinking and considers how thinking across traditions and systems of thought can generate distinct interpretive experiences. The chapters not only analyze Ghosh’s work but provide insight into the authors’ individual ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Geographia Literaria: Studies in Earth, Ethics, and Literature

    by Jayjit Sarkar, Ramit Samaddar, Nandi Ratul, Rachel Carazo, Pavlina Flajsarova, Nishant K. Narayanan, Oriol Batalla, Debnita Chakravarti, Jayson Althofer0, Ankita Sharma1, Mario Bosincu2 ...
    By sensing the fundamental ideas of earth and the earth-thought, this collection seeks to negotiate with and react to the underlying semasiological or psycho-geographical principle of geopoetics that cuts across varied and at times conflicting schools. From reading some geopoetical texts to understanding the idea of earth in Humboldt and Marx-Engels, topolitics in Tintin, reef-thinking, geopoet(h ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Indian Feminist Ecocriticism

    by Nicole Anae, Panchali Bhattacharya, Pronami Bhattacharyya, Ananya Chatterjee, Anindita Chatterjee, Nilanjana Chatterjee, Esther Daimari, Ivy Daimari, A. Edwin Jeevaraj, Nagendra Kumar0, Shalini M1, Nibedita Mukherjee2, Anupama Nayar CV3, Shibani Phukan4, Meghna Prabir5, Prachi Priyanka6, N Depak Saravanan7, Anik Sarkar8, Debajyoti Sarkar9, Jayjit Sarkar0, Shreyashi Sarkar1, Rahul V2, Triveni Goswami Vernal3, Douglas A. Vakoch4 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Following Françoise d’Eaubonne’s creation of the term “ecofeminism” in 1974, scholars around the world have explored ways that the degradation of the environment and the subjugation of women are linked. In the nearly three decades since the publication of the classical work Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva in 1993, several collections have appeared that apply ecofeminism to literary ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • border and bordering

    Politics, Poetics, Precariousness

    by Jayjit Sarkar, Bill Ashcroft, Emma Musty, Nicoletta Policek, Salvatore Perri, Priya Menon, Sharmistha Chatterjee Sriwastav, Amanda Rutherford, Sarah Baker0, Sharmista Das1, Sandip Mondal2, Oriol J. Batalla3, Ratul Nandi4, Rajarshi Bagchi5, Aditya Kant Ghising6, Debapriya Paul7, Priyanka Chatterjee8, Goutam Buddha Sural9, Nirjhar Sarkar0 ...
    Border and Bordering: Politics, Poetics, Precariousness focuses on the idea of border and its various geopolitical, sociocultural, and cognitive incarnations. In recent times, border has emerged as a common trope in contemporary language with phenomena such as ‘bordering’, ‘borderless’, ‘building borders’, ‘breaking borders’, ‘crossing borders’, ‘porous borders’, and ‘shifting borders’. Whether ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987

    by Sumita S. Chakravarty ...
    Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
    Although Indian popular cinema has a long history and is familiar to audiences around the world, it has rarely been systematically studied. This book offers the first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood. The study focuses on the cinema’s characteristic forms, its range of meanings and pleasures, and, above all, its ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Hindi Cinema

    Repeating the Subject

    by Nandini Bhattacharya ...
    Series series Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
    Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the cinema as motivated by an ongoing crisis of self-formation in modern India.The book looks at how ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Mapping the Shifting Paradigms of Post-Modern Society

    by Manu Mangattu ...
    Postmodernism has become the Holy Grail that charts 'living' in the present world through speculations, deliberations and negotiations. This collection of scholarly research articles map our dialogues with the intersections that twenty-first century society offers to individuals. Mapping the changing landscape of the Post-modern world is essential as man will not be talked out of finding meaning ... Read more

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  • Haunting Bollywood

    Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema

    by Meheli Sen ...
    Haunting Bollywood is a pioneering, interdisciplinary inquiry into the supernatural in Hindi cinema that draws from literary criticism, postcolonial studies, queer theory, history, and cultural studies. Hindi commercial cinema has been invested in the supernatural since its earliest days, but only a small segment of these films have been adequately explored in scholarly work; this book addresses ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Moving Image

    A Study of Indian Cinema

    by K. Valicha ...
    One of the first serious film studies in India. A contemporary analysis of the central issues contained in Indian films—issues which distinguish this cinema from films of other countries. The book argues that film in India is a genuine cultural expression carrying meaning. The special and valuable insights on Indian cinema that this book offers are enhanced by Dr Valichas own fascination with ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • English Heart, Hindi Heartland

    The Political Life of Literature in India

    by Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series Book 8 - FlashPoints
    English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Bollywood Travels

    Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema

    by Rajinder Dudrah ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, popular cultures, and media and entertainment industries from the popular Hindi cinema of India. It analyses and discusses a range of key contemporary films in detail, such as Veer Zaara, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, and Dostana.The book uses the notion of travel ... Read more

    $65.99 USD