[csaa-forum] TODAY Vijay Mishra on Bollywood

[James Donald]

UNSW Media Film and Theatre Seminars
Wednesday 19 April 2006
5 p.m. Webster Building 327

Bollywood Cinema: a Critical Genealogy
Vijay Mishra

This paper examines, in very broad terms, the genealogy of Bollywood 
cinema from the mid-thirties to  the early twenty-first century. It 
examines the relationship between this cinema and Indian aesthetic 
forms (notably the epic and dramaturgical traditions), the legacy of 
colonial genres (especially the melodramatic novel), hybrid  Parsi 
theatre, and the spectres of diaspora. Using a range of films (from 
the three versions of  Devdas and the films of Mehboob Khan to Amir 
Khan's Lagaan ["Land Tax"], Yash Johar's Kal Ho Naa Ho ["If tomorrow 
never comes"] and Ashutosh Gowarikar's Swades ["Homeland"])the paper 
attempts to think through the ways in which the old Bombay 
(Hindi/Urdu) cinema has now become Bollywood.

Vijay Mishra is Professor of English Literature at Murdoch 
University. He holds doctorates from the ANU and Oxford. Among his 
publications are Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and 
the Postcolonial Mind (with Bob Hodge)(1991), The Gothic Sublime 
(1994), Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime (1998), and 
Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire (2002). His most recent 
publication (co-authored with Bob Hodge) is 'What was 
Postcolonialism?' (New Literary History, Summer 2005). He has 
(finally) completed a book length study of the literature of the 
Indian diaspora. He is currently working on a book on Salman Rushdie.


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Dr James Donald
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Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre
University of New South Wales
Sydney
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