TY - BOOK AU - Sen,Meheli AU - Basu,Anustup TI - Figurations in Indian film SN - 9780230291799 U1 - 791.430954 PY - 2013/// CY - Hampshire, U.K PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Motion pictures KW - Motion picture industry KW - Philosophy KW - Human body in motion pictures N1 - Introduction: Meheli Sen -- Part 1. Political and typological figures -- Sensate outlaws: the recursive social bandit in Indian popular cultures / Bishnupriya Ghosháá -- What happened to Khadi? dress and costume in Bombay cinema / Anupama Kapse -- Configuring the other: the detective and the real in Satyajit Ray's Chiriakhana / Gautam Basu Thakur -- Part 2. Generic mutations -- Diverting diseases / M. Madhava Prasad -- Nevla as Dracula: figurations of the tantric as monster in the Hindi horror film / Usha Iyer -- Haunted havelis and hapless heroes: gender, genre and the Hindi gothic film / Meheli Sen -- Part 3. Star figures -- "The face that launched a thousand ships": Helen and public femininity in Hindi film / Anustup Basu -- From Superman to Shahenshah: stardom and the transfigurative body of Hrithik Roshan / Nandana Bose -- Con-figurations: the body as world in Bollywood stardom / Sumita S. Chakravarty -- Part 4. Figuring (out) new Bollywood -- Metafiguring Bollywood: (Brecht after Om Shanti Om) / Bhaskar Sarkar -- Bodies in syncopation / Moinak Biswas -- Between Violetta and Vasantasena is Toulouse-Lautrec: cinematic avatars and Bollywood in Moulin Rouge! / Kirsten Strayer -- Afterword: Anustup Basu UR - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1610/2013044382-b.html UR - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1610/2013044382-d.html UR - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1610/2013044382-t.html ER -