Titel: | The New Edge of Indian Cinema: An Analysis of the Treatments of Gender, Sexuality, and Matrimony in the New Indian Cinema in English; |
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In: | Asian Cinema, 17, 2006, 1, S. 138-154 |
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Intellect
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Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
Umfang: | 138-154 |
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ISSN: |
1059-440X
2049-6710 |
DOI: | 10.1386/ac.17.1.138_1 |
veröffentlicht in: | Asian Cinema |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Kollektion: | Intellect (CrossRef) |
<jats:p>Traditionally, there have been two schools of Hindi cinema. The center stage has always been occupied by Bollywood, which enthralls the Indian audiences globally with “song-and-dance extravaganzas and melodramatic stories big on family values; the other was the “Satyajit Ray-inspired realistic art-house films, which flowered in the 1970s and 1980s,” and which “tried to create a distinct language of film, but their work was relegated to festivals and television, where it wilted in the wings…” (Chopra, 2005). However, a particularly noticeable trend in the Indian movie industry in recent years has been the emergence of a third type of cinema -- the new Indian cinema in English.</jats:p> |