Sangita Gopal

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Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood CinemaPaperback, 26 January 2012

Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema
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Part of Series
South Asia Across the Disciplines
Print Length
240 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Date Published
26 Jan 2012
ISBN-10
0226304264
ISBN-13
9780226304267

Description

Bollywood movies have been long known for their colorful song-and-dance numbers and knack for combining drama, comedy, action-adventure, and music. But when India entered the global marketplace in the early 1990s, its film industry transformed radically. Production and distribution of films became regulated, advertising and marketing created a largely middle-class audience, and films began to fit into genres like science fiction and horror. In this bold study of what she names New Bollywood, Sangita Gopal contends that the key to understanding these changes is to analyze films' evolving treatment of romantic relationships.

Gopalargues that the form of the conjugal duo in movies reflects other social forces in India's new consumerist and global society. She takes a daring look at recent Hindi films and movie trends--the decline of song-and-dance sequences, the upgraded status of the horror genre, and the rise of the multiplex and multi-plot--to demonstrate how these relationships exemplify different formulas of contemporary living. A provocative account of how cultural artifacts can embody globalization's effects on intimate life, Conjugations will shake up the study of Hindi film.

Product Details

Author:
Sangita Gopal
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
26 January 2012
Dimensions:
22.61 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm
ISBN-10:
0226304264
ISBN-13:
9780226304267
Language:
English
Location:
Chicago, IL
Pages:
240
Weight:
358.34 gm

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