Indian Film Stars
BFI Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84457-854-2 (ISBN)
The contributors seek to inspire and inform further inquiries into the histories of film stardom—the industrial construction and promotion of star personalities, the actual labouring and imagined lifestyles of professional stars, the stars’ relationship to specific aesthetic cinematic conventions (such as frontality and song-dance) and production technologies (such as the play-back system and post-synchronization), and audiences’ investment in and devotion to specific star bodies—across the country’s multiple centres of film production and across the overlapping (and increasingly international) zones of the films’ distribution and reception. The star images, star bodies and star careers discussed are examined in relation to a wide range of issues, including the negotiation and contestation of tradition and modernity, the embodiment and articulation of both Indian and non-Indian values and vogues; the representation of gender and sexuality, of race and ethnicity, and of cosmopolitan mobility and transnational migration; innovations and conventions in performance style; the construction and transformation of public persona; the star’s association with film studios and the mainstream media; the star’s relationship with historical, political and cultural change and memory; and the star’s meaning and value for specific (including marginalised) sectors of the audience.
Michael Lawrence is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Sabu (BFI Publishing, 2014) and the co-editor, with Laura McMahon, of Animal Life and the Moving Image (BFI Publishing, 2015), and, with Karen Lury, of The Zoo and Screen Media: Images of Exhibition and Encounter (2016) and, with Rachel Tavenor, of Global Humanitarianism and Media Culture (2019).
Introduction: Michael Lawrence
1. Shanta Apte and the Unexpected: Anupama Kapse
2. Confessions of Indian Cinema’s First Woman Superstar: Kanan Devi’s Memoirs, Film History and Digital Archives: Ranita Chatterjee
3. Star’s “Dust”: Miss Kumari and the Fossilized Memory of the ‘First Malayalam Female Star’:
Darshana Sreedhar Mini
4. In the Wink of an eye: The Comedic Universe of Johnny Walker in the 1950s: Radha Dayal
5. Dharmendra Singh Deol: Masculinity and the Late-Nehruvian Hero in Hindi Cinema: Anustup Basu
6. Rajkumar and the Kannada Language Film: M.K. Raghavendra
7. The Feudal Lord Reincarnate: Mohanlal and the Poltiics of Malayali Masculinity: Meena T. Pillai
8. From Gandhi to Jinnah: National Dilemmas in the Stardom of Rattan Kumar: Salma Siddique
9. From Son of India to Teen King: Sajid Khan and Transnational Stardom: Meenasarani Linde Murugan
10. Harbhajan Maan: The Transnational Migrant Success Story of Punjabi Cinema: Harjant S. Gill
11. Helen: The Chin Chin Chu Girl: Sudesh Mishra
12. ‘She’s Everything That’s Unpardonable’: Hema Malini, Dream Girl on a Motorbike:
Rosie Thomas
13. Sridevi, Queen of Farce: Comedy, Performance and Star Persona in Popular Hindi Cinema: Nandana Bose
14: The Irresistible Badness of Salman Khan: Shohini Ghosh
15. Shah Rukh Khan Starring as Shah Rukh Khan: Performance Style, Audience Expectation and Self-Parody
Charlie Henniker
16. The Curious Case of Katrina Kaif: NRI Stardom and Ethnicity in Bollywood
Midath Hayder
Notes on contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.06.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 30 bw illus |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 189 x 246 mm |
| Gewicht | 654 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84457-854-2 / 1844578542 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84457-854-2 / 9781844578542 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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