Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema

Salman Rushdie's Novels and the Cinematic Imagination

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de Florian Stadtler

Type

Studies

Sujet

Countries > India

Mots Clés

Hindi cinema

Année d'édition

2015

Editeur

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

1ere édition

2013

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 214 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-138-93695-9

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Description de l'ouvrage:
This book analyses the novels of Salman Rushdie and their stylistic conventions in the context of Indian popular cinema and its role in the elaboration of the author’s arguments about post-independence postcolonial India. Focusing on different genres of Indian popular cinema, such as the ‘Social’, ‘Mythological’ and ‘Historical’, Stadtler examines how Rushdie’s writing foregrounds the epic, the mythic, the tragic and the comic, linking them in storylines narrated in cinematic parameters. The book shows that Indian popular cinema’s syncretism becomes an aesthetic marker in Rushdie’s fiction that allows him to elaborate on the multiplicity of Indian identity, both on the subcontinent and abroad, and illustrates how Rushdie uses Indian popular cinema in his narratives to express an aesthetics of hybridity and a particular conceptualization of culture with which ‘India’ has become identified in a global context. Also highlighted are Rushdie’s uses of cinema to inflect his reading of India as a pluralist nation and of the hybrid space occupied by the Indian diaspora across the world. The book connects Rushdie’s storylines with modes of cinematic representation to explore questions about the role, place and space of the individual in relation to a fast-changing social, economic and political space in India and the wider world.

À propos de l'auteur :
Florian Stadtler is Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. Previously Research Fellow at The Open University, he has published on South Asian writing in English, Indian popular cinema and British Asian fiction and history. He is Reviews Editor for Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing.

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"Recommended."-- U. Anjaria, Brandeis University, CHOICE

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