Understanding Bollywood : The Grammar of Hindi Cinema

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	What is Bollywood?
	Origins, size, and stature
	Language
	The question of realism
	The fan and the critic
PART I
1. Structure
	Genre
	The moral universe
	Repetition and coincidence
	Character types
	Kinship
	Fictive kinship
	The lost-and-found plot
2. Love
	The lover
	Love and destiny
	Love as intoxication
	Madness, obsession, and self-annihilation
	Love as crossing borders
	Separation
	Erotics
	Love’s enemy
	Losing faith in love
	Love after marriage
	Love these days
3. Song and dance
	Playback singing
	Circulation
	Understanding the song sequence: diegesis
	Song-and-dance sequences
	Lyrics
	Songs and emotions
	The love song
	Erotics
	Female sexual desire
	Prohibited desire
	Lust and the item number
4. Visual style
	Morality and visual style
	Color
	Costumes
	Locations
	Sets and the role of artifice
	Gestures and expressions
	The tableau and the fourth wall
	Angles, zooms, and pans
	Editing
	Montage
	Choreography and picturization
	Kitsch and visual style
5. Cinephilia
	Cinephilia and the star
	Fandom
	Double roles, twin plots, and cameos
	Film titles
	Intertextuality
	The affectionate parody
	The technology of filmmaking
PART II
6. Nationalism
	The nation as mother
	Corruption and capitalism
	Police corruption and the vigilante
	The secular nation
	Partition and the question of Pakistan
	Kashmir and the margins of the nation
	Love and the nation
	The nation and the diaspora
7. Gender and sexuality
	Gender roles
	Homosociality and male friendship
	Female friendship
	Love triangles
	Relationships with no name
	Mothers and sons
	Queer Bollywood
PART III
8. The future of Bollywood
	The multiplex
	Bollywood no more?
	Hatke cinema
	Blockbusters
	Social reform films
	Questioning good and evil
	Female-centered films
	The impact of #MeToo
	New masculinities
	The future of Bollywood
Notes
Works cited
Index