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Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema

- Salman Rushdie's Novels and the Cinematic Imagination

About Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema

This book analyses the novels of Salman Rushdie and their stylistic conventions in the context of Indian popular cinema and its role in the elaboration of the author¿s arguments about post-independence postcolonial India and Pakistan. Focusing on different genres of Indian popular cinema, such as the `Social,¿ `Mythological,¿ and `Historical,¿ Stadtler examines how Rushdie¿s writing foregrounds the epic, the mythic, the tragic, and the comic, linking them in a storyline narrated in cinematic parameters. The book shows that Indian popular cinemäs syncretism becomes an aesthetic marker in Rushdie¿s fiction that allows him to elaborate on the multiplicity of Indian identity, both on the subcontinent and abroad, and illustrates how Rushdie uses Indian popular cinema in his narratives to express an aesthetics of hybridity and a particular conceptualization of culture with which `Indiä has become identified in a global context. Also highlighted are Rushdie¿s uses of cinema to inflect his reading of India as a pluralist nation and of the hybrid space occupied by the Indian diaspora across the world. The book connects Rushdie¿s storylines with modes of cinematic representation to explore questions about the role, place, and space of the individual in relation to a fast-changing social, economic, and political space in India and the wider world.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781138936959
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 214
  • Published:
  • July 16, 2015
  • Dimensions:
  • 152x229x0 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 317 g.
Delivery: 1-2 weeks
Expected delivery: July 18, 2024

Description of Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema

This book analyses the novels of Salman Rushdie and their stylistic conventions in the context of Indian popular cinema and its role in the elaboration of the author¿s arguments about post-independence postcolonial India and Pakistan. Focusing on different genres of Indian popular cinema, such as the `Social,¿ `Mythological,¿ and `Historical,¿ Stadtler examines how Rushdie¿s writing foregrounds the epic, the mythic, the tragic, and the comic, linking them in a storyline narrated in cinematic parameters. The book shows that Indian popular cinemäs syncretism becomes an aesthetic marker in Rushdie¿s fiction that allows him to elaborate on the multiplicity of Indian identity, both on the subcontinent and abroad, and illustrates how Rushdie uses Indian popular cinema in his narratives to express an aesthetics of hybridity and a particular conceptualization of culture with which `Indiä has become identified in a global context. Also highlighted are Rushdie¿s uses of cinema to inflect his reading of India as a pluralist nation and of the hybrid space occupied by the Indian diaspora across the world. The book connects Rushdie¿s storylines with modes of cinematic representation to explore questions about the role, place, and space of the individual in relation to a fast-changing social, economic, and political space in India and the wider world.

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