Hinduism and Hindi Theater

by Diana Dimitrova

This book explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theatre in the period 1880-1960.

Hinduism and Hindi Theater

Author: Diana Dimitrova

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 1137599235

Page: 215

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This book explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theatre in the period 1880-1960. It discusses representative works of seven influential playwrights and looks into the ways they have imagined and re-imagined Hindu traditions. Diana Dimitrova examines the intersections of Hinduism and Hindi theatre, emphasizing the important role that both myth and discourse play in the representation of Hindu traditions in the works of Bharatendu Harishcandra, Jayshankar Prasad, Lakshminarayan Mishra, Jagdishcandra Mathur, Bhuvaneshvar, Upendranath Ashk, and Mohan Rakesh. Dimitrova’a analysis suggests either a traditionalist or a more modernist stance toward religious issues. She emphasizes the absence of Hindi-speaking authors who deal with issues implicit to the Muslim or Sikh or Jain, etc. traditions. This prompts her to suggest that Hindi theatre of the period 1880-1960, as represented in the works of the seven dramatists discussed, should be seen as truly ‘Hindu-Hindi’ theatre.

Gender Religion and Modern Hindi Drama

by Diana Dimitrova

An exploration of the issues of religion and gender in Hindi drama from the 1880s to the 1960s.

Gender Religion and Modern Hindi Drama

Author: Diana Dimitrova

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

ISBN: 077357462X

Page: 166

View: 235

"In Gender, Religion and Modern Hindi Drama Dimitrova studies the representation of gender and religion in Hindi drama from its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth century until the 1960s." "Dimitrova focuses on how different religious and mythological models pertaining to women have been reworked in Hindi drama and on whether the dramatists discussed present conservative of liberating Hindu images of the feminine."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions

by Diana Dimitrova

She is Professor of Hinduism and South Asian Religions at the University of
Montreal in Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Hinduism and Hindi Theater (
2016; paperback edition 2018), Gender, Religion and Modern Hindi Drama (
2008) ...

Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions

Author: Diana Dimitrova

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1000257959

Page: 176

View: 773

This book analyses cultural questions related to representations of the body in South Asian traditions, human perceptions and attitudes toward the body in religious and cultural contexts, as well as the processes of interpreting notions of the body in religious and literary texts. Utilising an interdisciplinary perspective by means of textual study and ideological analysis, anthropological analysis, and phenomenological analysis, the book explores both insider- and outsider perspectives and issues related to the body from the 2nd century CE up to the present-day. Chapters assess various aspects of the body including processes of embodiment and questions of mythologizing the divine body and othering the human body, as revealed in the literatures and cultures of South Asia. The book analyses notions of mythologizing and "othering" of the body as a powerful ideological discourse, which empowers or marginalizes at all levels of the human condition. Offering a deep insight into the study of religion and issues of the body in South Asian literature, religion and culture, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of South Asian studies, South Asian religions, South Asian literatures, cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature.

Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre

by Diana Dimitrova

Samkālīn hindi nāțak aur rangmañc . Dillī : Bhārtī Bhāṣā ... Berthold , Margot .
Weltgeschichte des Theaters . ... A National Theatre for the Hindus : Hariscandra
of Banaras and the Classical Traditions in Late Nineteenth Century India . ” Ed .
M ...

Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre

Author: Diana Dimitrova

Publisher: Peter Lang

ISBN: 9780820468228

Page: 129

View: 419

Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre is a critical study of the dramatic work of naturalistic Hindi playwright Upendranath Ashk (1910-1996). The book explores modern Hindi drama from its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth century until the 1960s. During this period, proscenium Hindi theatre, which originated under Western influence, matured and thrived. In the years after Independence, there was a strong resentment of Western ideas and cultural influence. Because of political controversies with the British, «Western» influence also came to be understood as «non-Indian» in the sphere of literature. This resulted in a negative stance toward the naturalistic play of Hindi and those dramatists who adhered to it. Thus, this book is a contribution to the present-day cultural dialogue between East and West.

Bollywood Cinema

by Vijay Mishra

Bollywood, India's film industry, produces some 800 movies each year. These are seen by roughly 11 million people each day! In this study Vijay Mishra examines Indian cinema from the perspectives of postcolonial studies and film theory.

Bollywood Cinema

Author: Vijay Mishra

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 9780415930154

Page: 296

View: 214

Bollywood, India's film industry, produces some 800 movies each year. These are seen by roughly 11 million people each day! In this study Vijay Mishra examines Indian cinema from the perspectives of postcolonial studies and film theory.

Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema

by Encyclopedia Britannica

1 n enres have rarely been central to Hindi films , certainly not in the way that J
they are to Hollywood cinema . ... Dadasaheb Phalke set the tone by using
stories about legendary heroes and Hindu gods in films such as Raja
Harishchandra ...

Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema

Author: Encyclopedia Britannica

Publisher: Popular Prakashan

ISBN: 9788179910665

Page: 659

View: 497

The Encyclopaedia Which Brings Together An Array Of Experts, Gives A Perspective On The Fascinating Journey Of Hindi Cinema From The Turn Of The Last Century To Becoming A Leader In The World Of Celluloid.

Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas

by K. Moti Gokulsing

Bringing together contributions from leading scholars in the field, this Handbook looks at the complex reasons for this remarkable journey.

Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas

Author: K. Moti Gokulsing

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1136772847

Page: 473

View: 928

India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After years of marginalisation by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the centre of the world cinema in a comparatively short space of time. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars in the field, this Handbook looks at the complex reasons for this remarkable journey. Combining a historical and thematic approach, the Handbook discusses how Indian cinemas need to be understood in their historical unfolding as well as their complex relationships to social, economic, cultural, political, ideological, aesthetic, technical and institutional discourses. The thematic section provides an up-to-date critical narrative on diverse topics such as audience, censorship, film distribution, film industry, diaspora, sexuality, film music and nationalism. The Handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting edge survey of Indian cinemas, discussing Popular, Parallel/New Wave and Regional cinemas as well as the spectacular rise of Bollywood. It is an invaluable resource for students and academics of South Asian Studies, Film Studies and Cultural Studies.

Malaysian Cinema Asian Film

by William Van der Heide

Ravi Vasudevan discusses reasons other than those cited by L . Krishnan ,
including the Hindi films ' construction of ' an overarching north Indian ,
majoritarian Hindu identity , ' which simultaneously defined all else as ' other ' (
Vasudevan ...

Malaysian Cinema Asian Film

Author: William Van der Heide

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

ISBN: 9789053565803

Page: 301

View: 987

Annotation Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.

Pop Culture India

by Asha Kasbekar

Not only did Sircar believe that it was possible to work outside the commercial
theater tradition, he felt that it was ... In 2005 Basu wrote the powerful play,
Satorie July, which dealt with the aftermath of the violent Hindu-Muslim
confrontation in Gujerat and criticized religious fundamentalism. Hindi and
English Theaters in India Unlike the Marathi and Bengali theaters ensconced in
the Mumbai-Pune and ...

Pop Culture India

Author: Asha Kasbekar

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 1851096361

Page: 336

View: 323

Looks at popular culture in India, including television, motion pictures, mass media, sports, literature, and lifestyles.

Bollywood

by Tejaswini Ganti

In Bollywood, anthropologist and film scholar Tejaswini Ganti provides a guide to the cultural, social and political significance of Hindi cinema, outlining the history and structure of the Bombay film industry, and the development of ...

Bollywood

Author: Tejaswini Ganti

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 0415583845

Page: 268

View: 760

In Bollywood, anthropologist and film scholar Tejaswini Ganti provides a guide to the cultural, social and political significance of Hindi cinema, outlining the history and structure of the Bombay film industry, and the development of popular Hindi filmmaking since the 1930s. Providing information and commentary on the key players in Bollywood, including composers, directors and stars, as well as material from current filmmakers themselves, the areas covered in Bollywood include: history of Indian cinema main themes and characteristics of Hindi cinema significant films, directors and stars production and distribution of Bollywood films interviews with actors, directors and screenwriters. Anyone interested in, or studying Bollywood cinema will find this a valuable purchase.

Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty First Century

by Mahir Saul

By the mid-1990s the Hindi cinema had departed from its cultural roots, adopted
a more globalized blend of Hindu representations, and come under the influence
of American movies. When Hausa filmmakers started full production, in 2000, ...

Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty First Century

Author: Mahir Saul

Publisher: Ohio University Press

ISBN: 0821419315

Page: 248

View: 503

African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and relied on support from the French film industry and the French state. Beginning in1969 the biennial Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), held in Burkina Faso, became the major showcase for these films. But since the early 1990s, a new phenomenon has come to dominate the African cinema world: mass-marketed films shot on less expensive video cameras. These “Nollywood” films, so named because many originate in southern Nigeria, are a thriving industry dominating the world of African cinema. Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century is the first book to bring together a set of essays offering a unique comparison of these two main African cinema modes.

Theatres of Independence

by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker

The book's ten appendixes collect extensive documentation of the work of leading playwrights and directors, as well as a record of the contemporary multilingual performance histories of major Indian, Western, and non-Western plays from all ...

Theatres of Independence

Author: Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

ISBN: 158729642X

Page: 504

View: 554

Theatres of Independence is the first comprehensive study of drama, theatre, and urban performance in post-independence India. Combining theatre history with theoretical analysis and literary interpretation, Aparna Dharwadker examines the unprecedented conditions for writing and performance that the experience of new nationhood created in a dozen major Indian languages and offers detailed discussions of the major plays, playwrights, directors, dramatic genres, and theories of drama that have made the contemporary Indian stage a vital part of postcolonial and world theatre.The first part of Dharwadker's study deals with the new dramatic canon that emerged after 1950 and the variety of ways in which plays are written, produced, translated, circulated, and received in a multi-lingual national culture. The second part traces the formation of significant postcolonial dramatic genres from their origins in myth, history, folk narrative, sociopolitical experience, and the intertextual connections between Indian, European, British, and American drama. The book's ten appendixes collect extensive documentation of the work of leading playwrights and directors, as well as a record of the contemporary multilingual performance histories of major Indian, Western, and non-Western plays from all periods and genres. Treating drama and theatre as strategically interrelated activities, the study makes post-independence Indian theatre visible as a multifaceted critical subject to scholars of modern drama, comparative theatre, theatre history, and the new national and postcolonial literatures.

Conjugations

by Sangita Gopal

A provocative account of how cultural artifacts can embody globalization’s effects on intimate life, Conjugations will shake up the study of Hindi film.

Conjugations

Author: Sangita Gopal

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 0226304272

Page: 240

View: 735

Bollywood movies have been long known for their colorful song-and-dance numbers and knack for combining drama, comedy, action-adventure, and music. But when India entered the global marketplace in the early 1990s, its film industry transformed radically. Production and distribution of films became regulated, advertising and marketing created a largely middle-class audience, and films began to fit into genres like science fiction and horror. In this bold study of what she names New Bollywood, Sangita Gopal contends that the key to understanding these changes is to analyze films’ evolving treatment of romantic relationships. Gopalargues that the form of the conjugal duo in movies reflects other social forces in India’s new consumerist and global society. She takes a daring look at recent Hindi films and movie trends—the decline of song-and-dance sequences, the upgraded status of the horror genre, and the rise of the multiplex and multi-plot—to demonstrate how these relationships exemplify different formulas of contemporary living. A provocative account of how cultural artifacts can embody globalization’s effects on intimate life, Conjugations will shake up the study of Hindi film.

Divinizing in South Asian Traditions

by Diana Dimitrova

This book deals with the issue of divinizing in South Asian traditions. It aims at studying cultural questions related to the representations and the mythologizing of the divine. It also explores the human relations to the "divine other.

Divinizing in South Asian Traditions

Author: Diana Dimitrova

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1351123602

Page: 132

View: 113

The issue of divinizing in South Asian traditions has not been examined before as a process involving various methods to affect the socio-cultural cognition of the community. It is therefore essential to consider the context of "divinizing" and to analyse what groups, institutions or individuals define the discourse, what are the ideological positions that they represent, and who or what is being divinized. This book deals with the issue of divinizing in South Asian traditions. It aims at studying cultural questions related to the representations and the mythologizing of the divine. It also explores the human relations to the "divine other." It studies the interpretations of the divine in religious texts and the embodiment of the "divine other" in ritual practices. The focus is on studying the phenomenon of divinizing in its religious, cultural, and ideological implications. The book comprises eight chapters that explore the question of divinizing from the 2nd century CE up to present-day in North and South India. The chapters discuss the issue both from insider and outsider perspectives, within the framework of textual study as well as ideological and anthropological analysis. All articles explore various aspects of the cultural phenomenon of being in relation to the divine other, of the process of interpreting and embodying the divine, and of the representation of the divinizing process, as revealed in the literatures and cultures of South Asia. Applying theoretical models of religious and cultural studies to discuss texts written in South Asian languages and engage in critical dialogue with current scholarship, this book is an indispensable study of literary, religious and cultural production in South Asia. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of South Asian studies, Asian Studies, religious and cultural studies as well as comparative religion.

India s Shakespeare

by Poonam Trivedi

This is a collection on the diverse aspects of the interaction between Shakespeare and India, a process embedded in the contradictions of colonialism - of simultaneous submission and resistance.

India s Shakespeare

Author: Poonam Trivedi

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

ISBN: 9780874138818

Page: 303

View: 724

This is a collection on the diverse aspects of the interaction between Shakespeare and India, a process embedded in the contradictions of colonialism - of simultaneous submission and resistance. The essays, grouped around the key issues of translation, interpretation, and performance, deal with how the plays were taught, translated, and adapted, as well as the literary, social, and political implications of this absorption into the cultural fabric of India. They also look at the other side, what India meant to Shakespeare. Further, they document how the performance of Shakespeare both colonized and catalyzed Indian theater - being staged in English in schools, in translation in various parts of the country, through acculturation into indigenous theater forms and Hindi cinema. The book highlights, and thus rereads, not just one of the longest and most widespread interactions between a Western author and the East but also part of the colonial and postcolonial history of India. Poonam Trivedi is a Reader in English at Indraprastha College, University of Delhi. Now retired, Dennis Bartholomeusz was Reader in English literature at Monash University in Melbourne.

Producing Bollywood

by Tejaswini Ganti

For the millions of fans of Hindi cinema around the world, Khan requires no
introduction. ... The name change was effected by the Shiv Sena—a Hindu and
Marathi chauvinist political party—soon after they came to power in Maharashtra
in ...

Producing Bollywood

Author: Tejaswini Ganti

Publisher: Duke University Press

ISBN: 0822352133

Page: 424

View: 204

Producing Bollywood is an in-depth ethnography of the Bombay-based Hindi film industry, more popularly known as Bollywood. Taking readers inside this hugely popular global industry, Tejaswini Ganti focuses on the social world and professional practices of well-known Hindi filmmakers.

Guide to College Majors 2008

by Princeton Review

Bilingualism Contemporary Culture in South Asia Dance / Dance Theater of Asia
Hindi I - IV Hinduism , Texts , Practices , and Performance Indian Cinema Indian
Dance and Hindu Cosmology Introduction to Asian / African Literature — Voices
 ...

Guide to College Majors 2008

Author: Princeton Review

Publisher: Princeton Review

ISBN: 9780375766374

Page: 837

View: 714

Provides information on more than four hundred undergraduate majors, including related fields, sample college curricula, suggested high school preparation courses, and career and salary prospects for graduates.

Stages of Life

by Kathryn Hansen

The vanished world of India’s late-colonial theatre provides the backdrop for the autobiographies in this book. The life-stories of a quartet of early Indian actors and poet-playwrights are here translated into English for the first time.

Stages of Life

Author: Kathryn Hansen

Publisher: Anthem Press

ISBN: 1783080981

Page: 392

View: 996

The vanished world of India’s late-colonial theatre provides the backdrop for the autobiographies in this book. The life-stories of a quartet of early Indian actors and poet-playwrights are here translated into English for the first time. These men were schooled not in the classroom but in large theatrical companies run by Parsi entrepreneurs. Their memoirs, replete with anecdote and humor, are as significant to the understanding of the nationalist era as the lives of political leaders or social reformers.