Bombay cinema's Islamicate histories / / edited by Ira Bhaskar and Richard Allen

• Pubblicazione: Bristol, England : , : Intellect, , [2022]; ©2022
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (442 pages)
• Disciplina: 791.430954
• Soggetto topico: Islam in motion pictures
• Persona (resp. second.): AllenRichard <1959->; BhaskarIra
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- Half Title -- Frontispiece -- Bombay Cinema's Islamicate Histories -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Transliteration -- Part 1 Islamicate Histories -- 1 Passionate Refrains: The Theatricality of Urdu on the Parsi Stage -- Parsi pioneers and Urdu munshis -- Sight and sound in the urban playhouse -- Registers of Urdu -- Āghā Ḥashr and Yahūdī kī Laṛkī -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 2 The Persian Mas̤navī Tradition and Bombay Cinema -- Appendix 1: Indian films -- Appendix 2: Iranian films -- Notes -- References -- 3 Reflections from Padmini's Palace: Women's Voices of Longing and Lament in the Sufi Romance and Shi.i Elegy -- The virahi.i in early modern Awadhi and Braj literature -- Inter-canonical connections and the Hindavi mars.iya -- The virahi.i in the age of literary reform -- Notes -- References -- 4 Situating the T.awa'if as a Poet: Nostalgia, Urdu Literary Cultures and Vernacular Modernity -- Urdu print culture and vernacular modernity -- Ta.kiras on women poets and t.awa'if poets -- The Urdu ghazal and the forgotten t.awa'if poets -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 Mughal Chronicles: Words, Images and the Gaps between Them -- Notes -- References -- 6 Justice, Love and the Creative Imagination in Mughal India -- Justice in Jahangir's memoir and paintings -- Legends of Jahangir's justice -- Jahangir's union with Nur Jahan -- Nur Jahan's rise to power -- Legend of romantic love -- Love and lex talionis -- Justice versus mercy: Sohrab Modi's Pukar -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 The 'Muslim Presence' in Padmaavat -- What is Muslim presence? -- Karni Sena's Padmaavati -- Padmaavat's Muslims -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part 2 Cinenatic Forms -- 8 Alibaba's Open Sesame: Unravelling the Islamicate in Oriental Fantasy Films. ; Alibaba (1937): Sadhona and Modhu Bose -- Alibaba (1940): Mehboob Khan -- Alibaba (1954): Homi Wadia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9 The Textual, Musical and Sonic Journey of the Ghazal in Bombay Cinema -- The ghazal and the gramophone era -- Begum Akhtar and the ghazal -- The playback era and the ghazal in Bombay cinema -- The ma.fil-style ghazal -- The melancholic ghazal -- Notes -- References -- 10 The Sufi Sacred, the Qawwali and the Songs of Bombay Cinema -- Sufism: Philosophy, poetic idioms and musical performance -- Sufism and the qawwali in Bombay cinema -- Sufi idioms and Bollywood songs -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 11 Avoiding Urdu and the T..awa'if: Regendering Kathak Dance in Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje -- Love, hate and the Islamicate -- Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje -- Dance, gender and nationalism -- Screening the master narrative -- Notes -- References -- 12 The Poetics of Parda -- Veiling, looking and desire -- Veiling and mistaken identity -- Photography, cinema and parda -- Deconstructing parda -- Notes -- References -- 13 Transfigurations of the Star Body: Salman Khan and the Spectral Muslim -- The fame and notoriety of Salman Khan -- The rise of Salman Khan -- Salman Khan and the Muslim -- The early action films: Speaking to the exiled -- Transfigured body, transfigured landscape -- Conjurations of the star body -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- 14 Terrorism, Conspiracy and Surveillance in Bombay's Urban Cinema -- The archive of memory -- Bombay's takeover in Black Friday -- The archaeology of the stereotype: Aamir -- The corridors of power in A Wednesday -- The technological uncanny -- Acknowlegdements -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
• Sommario/riassunto: Popularly known as Bollywood, Bombay cinema conjures up song, dance and starry-eyed romance. Where do those conventions come from? Many derive from the historical influence of Muslim cultures interacting with other traditions in the Indian subcontinent. Contributions by major scholars of South Asian cultural history and Indian Cinema 105 b&w illus.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bombay cinema's Islamicate histories
• ISBN: 1-78938-399-4; 1-78938-398-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818257303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II