Behind the Scenes

Contemporary Bollywood Directors and Their Cinema

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Edited by Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan and Vimal Mohan John

Type

Dictionaries

Subject

Countries > India

Keywords

India, director, Hindi cinema

Publishing date

2017

Publisher

SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 422 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-93-86062-39-0

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Book Presentation:
For those who think, read, teach, and write about Bollywood, this book is the release of the year!

They are the ‘stars’ who sit behind the camera and create magic between ‘Action’ and ‘Cut’. Meet the directors of New Age cinema who with their themes, characteristic styles, and masterful storytelling are bridging the gap between commerce and content, commercial and art-house cinema.

This book introduces you to the films they have made and provides a critical analysis of their craft, while remaining grounded in cinematic and popular culture theories. It shows the distinct ways in which they have handled issues of gender, urban culture, and social inequality.

About the authors:
Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. Her interests include film studies, drama and popular culture. She has a PhD in American Drama, was the recipient of the Canadian Faculty Enrichment Programme fellowship in 2009 and was attached to Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. She has published over 30 articles in academic journals of repute, including Cambridge, Oxford, Routledge and SAGE. She edited Postliberalization Indian Novels in English: Politics of Global Reception and Awards (2013). She is the organizer of Imaging Cinema, a popular film workshop (2010–2012 and 2014) at IIT Madras.Vimal Mohan John has a PhD in film studies from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. He was on an extended fellowship that was awarded to him by the department upon completion of his PhD. His work concerns study of the auteurial practices of film directors and how they mediate gender, cultures and representations. Apart from presenting papers at various national and international conferences, he also publishes academic papers. He teaches as Assistant Professor, Department of English, St. Berchmans College, Kottayam (Kerala).

Press Reviews:
A well-curated collection of insightful essays celebrating important new voices in contemporary Hindi cinema… [The editors] have embarked on a praiseworthy academic exercise, which chronicles the rise of several exciting new film-makers who have transformed Bollywood in many ways by bravely taking the road not taken.

-- Frontline, 5 January 2018