Figurations in Indian Film

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Sensate Outlaws: The Recursive Social Bandit in Indian Popular Cultures....Pages 21-43
What Happened to Khadi? Dress and Costume in Bombay Cinema....Pages 44-66
Configuring the Other: The Detective and the Real in Satyajit Ray’s Chiriakhana....Pages 67-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Diverting Diseases....Pages 91-100
Nevla as Dracula: Figurations of the Tantric as Monster in the Hindi Horror Film....Pages 101-115
Haunted Havelis and Hapless Heroes: Gender, Genre, and the Hindi Gothic Film....Pages 116-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
“The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships”: Helen and Public Femininity in Hindi Film....Pages 139-157
From Superman to Shahenshah: Stardom and the Transnational Corporeality of Hrithik Roshan....Pages 158-178
Con-figurations: The Body as World in Bollywood Stardom....Pages 179-201
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Metafiguring Bollywood: Brecht after Om Shanti Om....Pages 205-235
Bodies in Syncopation....Pages 236-252
Between Violetta and Vasantasena Is Toulouse-Lautrec: Cinematic Avatars and Bollywood in Moulin Rouge!....Pages 253-267
Afterword....Pages 268-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-292