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The 1970s was a pivotal decade in the Indian social, cultural,
political and economic landscape: the global oil crisis, wars with
China and Pakistan in the previous decade, the Bangladesh war of
1971, labour and food shortages, widespread political corruption,
and the declaration of the state of Emergency. Amidst this backdrop
Indian cinema in both its popular and art/parallel film forms
flourished. This exciting new collection brings together original
research from across the arts and humanities disciplines that
examine the legacies of the 1970s in India's cinemas, offering an
invaluable insight into this important period. The authors argue
that the historical processes underway in the 1970s are important
even today, and can be deciphered in the aural and visual medium of
Indian cinema. The book explores two central themes: first, the
popular cinema's role in helping to construct the decade's public
culture; and second, the powerful and under-studied archive of the
decade as present in India's popular cinemas. This book is based on
a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.
The 1970s was a pivotal decade in the Indian social, cultural,
political and economic landscape: the global oil crisis, wars with
China and Pakistan in the previous decade, the Bangladesh war of
1971, labour and food shortages, widespread political corruption,
and the declaration of the state of Emergency. Amidst this backdrop
Indian cinema in both its popular and art/parallel film forms
flourished. This exciting new collection brings together original
research from across the arts and humanities disciplines that
examine the legacies of the 1970s in India's cinemas, offering an
invaluable insight into this important period. The authors argue
that the historical processes underway in the 1970s are important
even today, and can be deciphered in the aural and visual medium of
Indian cinema. The book explores two central themes: first, the
popular cinema's role in helping to construct the decade's public
culture; and second, the powerful and under-studied archive of the
decade as present in India's popular cinemas. This book is based on
a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.
Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most
powerful social forces. Its blockbusters contest ideas about state
formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and fabricate
public fantasies of what constitutes "India." Written by an
award-winning scholar of popular culture and postcolonial
modernity, Bollywood's India analyzes the role of the cinema's most
popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern
India. With dazzling interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi provides
an interdisciplinary account of popular cinema as a space that
filters politics and modernity for its viewers. Themes such as
crime and punishment, family and individuality, vigilante and
community capture the diffuse aspirations of an evolving nation.
Summoning India's tumultuous 1970s as an interpretive lens, Joshi
reveals the cinema's social work across decades that saw the
decline of studios, the rise of the multi-starrer genre, and the
arrival of corporate capital and new media platforms. In elegantly
crafted studies of iconic and less familiar films, including Awara
(1951), Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957), Deewaar (1975), Sholay (1975),
Dil Se (1998), A Wednesday (2008), and 3 Idiots (2009), Joshi
powerfully conveys the pleasures and politics of Bollywood
blockbusters.
Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most
powerful social forces. Its blockbusters contest ideas about state
formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and fabricate
public fantasies of what constitutes "India." Written by an
award-winning scholar of popular culture and postcolonial
modernity, Bollywood's India analyzes the role of the cinema's most
popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern
India. With dazzling interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi provides
an interdisciplinary account of popular cinema as a space that
filters politics and modernity for its viewers. Themes such as
crime and punishment, family and individuality, vigilante and
community capture the diffuse aspirations of an evolving nation.
Summoning India's tumultuous 1970s as an interpretive lens, Joshi
reveals the cinema's social work across decades that saw the
decline of studios, the rise of the multi-starrer genre, and the
arrival of corporate capital and new media platforms. In elegantly
crafted studies of iconic and less familiar films, including Awara
(1951), Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957), Deewaar (1975), Sholay (1975),
Dil Se (1998), A Wednesday (2008), and 3 Idiots (2009), Joshi
powerfully conveys the pleasures and politics of Bollywood
blockbusters.
In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive
virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by
two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and
postcolonial periods. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, readers and writers, empire and nation, consumption and
production, "In Another Country" vividly explores a process by
which first readers and then writers of the English novel
indigenized the once imperial form and put it to their own uses.
Asking what nineteenth-century Indian readers chose to read and
why, Joshi shows how these readers transformed the literary and
cultural influences of empire. By subsequently analyzing the
eventual rise of the English novel in India, she further
demonstrates how Indian novelists, from Krupa Satthianadhan to
Salman Rushdie, took an alien form in an alien language and used it
to address local needs. Taken together in this manner, reading and
writing reveal the complex ways in which culture is continually
translated and transformed in a colonial and postcolonial
context.
In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive
virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by
two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and
postcolonial periods. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, readers and writers, empire and nation, consumption and
production, "In Another Country" vividly explores a process by
which first readers and then writers of the English novel
indigenized the once imperial form and put it to their own uses.
Asking what nineteenth-century Indian readers chose to read and
why, Joshi shows how these readers transformed the literary and
cultural influences of empire. By subsequently analyzing the
eventual rise of the English novel in India, she further
demonstrates how Indian novelists, from Krupa Satthianadhan to
Salman Rushdie, took an alien form in an alien language and used it
to address local needs. Taken together in this manner, reading and
writing reveal the complex ways in which culture is continually
translated and transformed in a colonial and postcolonial
context.
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