The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Cinemas is the first collection of original contributions to comprehensively analyse one of the most diverse and prolific cinema-producing regions of the world. It features chapters by up -and -coming and established scholars from a diverse array of academic specialties that survey South Asian cinemas, placing an emphasis on new, emerging, and underexplored cinematic terrains.
The handbook is organized in two parts: Regions and Themes. The first part examines the film industries from a regional perspective, including the cinemas of various Indian languages, in conjunction with the cinemas of other South Asian cinemas, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The second part examines issues, themes, and practices that cut across region, including distribution platforms, audiences, song and dance, and gender and sexuality.
A crucial intervention in the field of South Asian Cinema Studies, this handbook is an essential reference work for students and researchers of Asian cinema, film and culture and a significant contribution to South Asian Studies
The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Cinemas is the first collection of original contributions to comprehensively analyse diverse and prolific cinema-producing regions of the world. It features chapters that survey South Asian cinemas, placing an emphasis on new, emerging, and underexplored cinematic terrains.
1. Introduction: Redefining South Asian Cinema by Ajay Gehlawat and
Jayson Beaster-Jones PART I: REGIONS Bangladesh
2. Women, War and Cinema in
Banglades by Elora Halim Chowdhury Bhutan
3. Dreams and Illusions:
Contemporary Bhutanese Cinema by Ivan Stacy India
4. Acts of Possession:
Gender, Wealth and Spectral Justice in Bengali Cinema by Meheli Sen
5.
Anaarkali of Aarah and the Trouble with Being Bhojpuri: Citation and
Differentiation in the Formation of Language Industries by Kathryn Hardy
6.
Bollywood Cinema by Lucia Krämer
7. The Geopolitics of Kannada Language
Cinema by MK Raghavendra
8. Marathi Cinema: Region, Space and Historical
Reflexivity by Hrishikesh Ingle
9. Gender, Caste and Queer Interruptions in
Punjabi Cinema by Harjant S. Gill
10. Post-Regional Tamil Cinema by Selvaraj
Velayutham and Vijay Devadas Nepal
11. The Quest for Maulikta in Nepali
cinema by Dikshya Karki Pakistan
12. Martial law and the emergence of a new
Pakistani cinema (1970s-1980s) by Syeda Momina Massood
13. Fighters and
Monsters in Pakistani Womens Cinema: Feminocentric Heroism in Urdu and
Pashto Genres, 1980s/90s by Esha Niyogi De
14. Constructing Gender in New
Pakistani Cinema (2013-2024) by Zebunnisa Hamid Sri Lanka
15. Beyond Conflict
in Sri Lankan CInema by Ian Conrich PART II: THEMES Streaming/ Audience/
Politics
16. OTT Services in India by Nandana Bose
17. A Film That Does Not
Exist: Tees, Hindutva and the Politics of Streaming by Sarunas Paunksnis
18.
Caste In-Visibility: Dalit Representation in Hindi Films and SVOD Content by
Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis
19. Story, Sound and Spectacle Signifying
Everything: Bollywood and the Indian Diaspora by Anjali Ram
20. Jhoome Jo
Pathaan, the Hook Step and the Political Potential of Virality by Anaar
Desai-Stephens Music and Dance by
21. Rhythm and Algorithm: Reality TV, Item
numbers and the Poetics of Remix Pallabi Chakravorty
22. Kuchipudi and the
Telugu Film Industry by Rumya Putcha
23. Watching Nepali Songs: A Brief
History of Music Videos in Nepal by Anna Stirr Gender and Sexuality
24. The
Price of Love: The Feminist Heroine of the Bollywood Romantic Comedy by
Namrata Rele Sathe
25. Male Sexuality in South Asian Cinema: Sovereign
Masculinity and Its Vicissitudes by Baidurya Chakrabarti
26. Malayalam
Soft-Porn and Discursive Networks of the Sex-Siren by Darshana Sreedhar
Mini
27. Conclusion: All the other -ollywoods by Ajay Gehlawat
Ajay Gehlawat is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Theatre and Film at Sonoma State University, USA. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of several studies of popular Hindi cinema.
Jayson Beaster-Jones is Professor of Music at the University of California, Merced, USA. He is the author of several books, including Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song (2015).
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