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Cinema of Interruptions: Action Genres in Contemporary Indian Cinema (Paperback, 2002 Ed.)
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Cinema of Interruptions: Action Genres in Contemporary Indian Cinema (Paperback, 2002 Ed.)
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A framework for understanding the distinctiveness of Indian cinema
as a national cinema within a global context dominated by Hollywood
is proposed by this book. With its sudden explosions into
song-and-dance sequences, half-time intermissions and heavy traces
of censorship, Indian cinema can be identified as a "Cinema of
Interruptions". To the uninitiated viewer, brought up on the
seamless linear plotting of Hollywood narrative, this unfamiliar
tendency towards digression may appear random and superfluous, yet
this book argues that such devices assist in the construction of a
distinct visual and narrative time-space. In the hands of
imaginative directors, the conventions of Indian cinema become
opportunities for narrative play and personal expression in such
films as "Sholay" (1975), "Nayakan" (1987), "Parinda" (1989),
"Hathyar" (1981) and "Hey Ram!" (1999). "Cinema of Interruptions"
places commercial Indian film within a global system of popular
cinemas, but also points out its engagement with the dominant genre
principles implemented by Western film. By focusing on the
action-genre work of leading contemporary directors J.P. Dutta,
Mani Rutnam, and Vidhu Vinod Chopra, brazen national style is shown
to interact with international genre films to produce a hybrid form
that reworks the gangster film, the western and the avenging woman
genre. Central to this study is the relationship Indian cinema
shares with its audience, and an understanding of the pleasures it
offers the cinephile. In articulating this bond the book presents
not only a fresh framework for understanding popular Indian cinema
but also a contribution to film genre studies.
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