Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity
Production, Representation, and Reception
ISBN:
9780198891017
Publication date:
01/08/2024
Hardback
304 pages
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ISBN:
9780198891017
Publication date:
01/08/2024
Hardback
304 pages
Dr Nadira Khatun
The book joins a growing scholarship in the field of Bollywood film studies, encompassing methodological sub-groups such as discursive or narrative studies, textual analysis, audience research, and the political economy of Bollywood.
Rights: World Rights
Dr Nadira Khatun
Description
The book joins a growing scholarship in the field of Bollywood film studies, encompassing methodological sub-groups such as discursive or narrative studies, textual analysis, audience research, and the political economy of Bollywood. It particularly focuses on the representation of Muslims in postcolonial Bollywood cinema that draws upon earlier questions and concerns about narrative style and the politics of representing Muslims. It also includes issues concerning Muslim film genres and the chronological shift in the portrayal of Muslims that is contingent upon national politics. In Bollywood cinema, Muslims have traditionally been portrayed through the lens of religion. Narratives associated with that specific religious identity have been adapted, based on the socio-political setting of the country at the time of the film's making. The study, thus, adds to scholarship on 'representation' in popular Hindi cinema.
About the author: Nadira Khatun is Assistant Professor at the School of Communications, XIM University, Odisha. She has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at McMaster University, Hamilton. Khatun's research and teaching interests are film studies, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, popular culture, Muslim identity, Indian cinema, media representation, and new media. She has contributed to multiple national and international academic journals and edited volumes on Bollywood, Muslim identity, and social media.
Dr Nadira Khatun
Table of contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1:Role of Muslims in Filmmaking
2:Muslim Historical genre and Muslims in Historical Genre: From Diplomat Warriors to Barbarian Outsiders
3:The Muslim Social Genre: From Exotic Exclusive to Ordinary Inclusive
4:The Muslim Political Genre: From Anti-Pakistani Jingoism to Islamophobia
5:The Muslim Modern Genre: From Allegiant to Secular
Epilogue: The Representation of the 'Other'
Appendix - I: Interview Schedule / Questionnaire
Appendix - II: List of Movies Forming the Universe of the Study
Appendix - III: Demographic / Brief Bio. of the Participents
References
Index
Dr Nadira Khatun
Description
The book joins a growing scholarship in the field of Bollywood film studies, encompassing methodological sub-groups such as discursive or narrative studies, textual analysis, audience research, and the political economy of Bollywood. It particularly focuses on the representation of Muslims in postcolonial Bollywood cinema that draws upon earlier questions and concerns about narrative style and the politics of representing Muslims. It also includes issues concerning Muslim film genres and the chronological shift in the portrayal of Muslims that is contingent upon national politics. In Bollywood cinema, Muslims have traditionally been portrayed through the lens of religion. Narratives associated with that specific religious identity have been adapted, based on the socio-political setting of the country at the time of the film's making. The study, thus, adds to scholarship on 'representation' in popular Hindi cinema.
About the author: Nadira Khatun is Assistant Professor at the School of Communications, XIM University, Odisha. She has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at McMaster University, Hamilton. Khatun's research and teaching interests are film studies, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, popular culture, Muslim identity, Indian cinema, media representation, and new media. She has contributed to multiple national and international academic journals and edited volumes on Bollywood, Muslim identity, and social media.
Table of contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1:Role of Muslims in Filmmaking
2:Muslim Historical genre and Muslims in Historical Genre: From Diplomat Warriors to Barbarian Outsiders
3:The Muslim Social Genre: From Exotic Exclusive to Ordinary Inclusive
4:The Muslim Political Genre: From Anti-Pakistani Jingoism to Islamophobia
5:The Muslim Modern Genre: From Allegiant to Secular
Epilogue: The Representation of the 'Other'
Appendix - I: Interview Schedule / Questionnaire
Appendix - II: List of Movies Forming the Universe of the Study
Appendix - III: Demographic / Brief Bio. of the Participents
References
Index