Selected papers from the 'New Review of Film and Television Studies'
are available as free downloads (in both pdf and html formats).
Currently, the following essay is freely available for a limited time:
DIS-ORIENTALIZING BOLLYWOOD
Incorporating Indian popular cinema into a survey film course
Sheila J. Nayar
New Review of Film and Television Studies
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 3, Number 1 / May 2005
Pages: 59 - 74
Abstract:
This paper is born of its author's long-term interest in (a) making
Hindi popular film (also known as 'Bollywood') accessible to a Western
audience, and (b) blurring the lines of what is oft perceived by
students as 'that' commercial Asian industry - as versus 'this'
Hollywood one. Pedagogically, it seeks ways to assimilate Bollywood and
other forms of non-Hollywood popular cinema into survey film courses
that are, more often than not, weighted toward a Western concept of
content, culture, and aesthetic vision. In keeping with that
philosophical vision, it discusses how one might - even while
acknowledging difference - integrate Bombay cinema and other
marginalized commercial cinemas into the survey framework typical of a
small liberal arts college, as well as the ways in which these other
(and Other) cinemas can be rendered part of a socio-historical
continuum of filmic expression rather than relegated to the figurative
margins of the curriculum.
Visit the website at:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17400309.asp
and click on the 'Online Contents' link on the right side of the page.
DIS-ORIENTALIZING BOLLYWOOD can be found in the May 2005 issue.
Abstracts for all other papers in the journal are also available on
this page.
Thank you.
Warren Buckland
Editor, New Review of Film and Television Studies:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17400309.asp
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