Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West

Varsha Panjwani teaches at NYU, London, UK. Koel Chatterjee teaches Integrated English at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Dance and Music, UK.

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Notes on Contributors

Foreword: On Reading the Indian Shakespeare Film
Poonam Trivedi (Indraprastha College, University of Delhi, India)

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West: Past, Present and Future Directions
A Conversation between Varsha Panjwani (NYU London, UK) and Koel Chatterjee (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Dance and Music, UK)

PART ONE: Dismantling the Familiar
1. Re-generation: Remapping the Screenscape in Fractious Times
Diana E. Henderson (MIT, USA)

2. Two Indian Film Offshoots of Twelfth Night
Robert White (University of Western Australia, Australia)

3. ‘For never was a story of more woe’: Dialogic Telling and Global Interchange in Qayamat se Qayamat Tak, a ‘Bollywood’ Film Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet
Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK)

4. ‘Indian’ Independent Cinema and Shakespeare: Conversations with Sharat Katariya and Vandana Kataria
Tula Goenka (Syracuse University, USA)

5. Vandana Kataria’s Noblemen: Global Frames of Interpretation
Taarini Mookherjee (Columbia University, USA)

6. Chutzpah: The Politics of Bollywood Shakespeare Subtitles
Varsha Panjwani (NYU London, UK)

PART TWO: Re-contextualizing the Strangers
7. Curating Indian Shakespeares at the BFI in 2016
Helen deWitt in conversation with Anne Sophie Refskou (Aarhus University, Denmark)

8. “Traveling” with Shakespeare through Bhardwaj’s Haider: Some Challenges in Teaching Global Shakespearean Adaptations in US University Classrooms: The Global Shakespeare Movement
Jyotsna Singh (Michigan State University, USA)

9. Understanding Nimmi: Tracing Interpretations of Vishal Bhardwaj’s Maqbool
Ana Laura Magis Weinberg (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)

10. ‘Naina thag lenge’: Visual Uncertainty in Othello and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara
Shani Bans (University College London, UK)

11. A Pair Of Homotextual Lovers: Bhansali’s Ram-Leela and Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet
Amritesh Singh (University of St Andrews, UK)

12. ‘All the world’s a stage’: The Participatory Indian Cinema Audience and its Impact on Indian Shakespeare Films
Koel Chatterjee (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Dance and Music, UK)

Afterword: Sonia Massai (King's College London, UK)

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