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15 ADDRESSING THE SPECTATOR OF A ‘THIRD WORLD’ NATIONAL CINEMA:THE BOMBAY ‘SOCIAL’ FILM OFTHE 1940S AND 1950S

  • Ravi S. Vasudevan
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Asian Cinemas
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii
  4. INTRODUCTION 1
  5. PART I APPROACHING ASIAN CINEMAS
  6. SECTION 1 ORIENTALISM AND JAPANESE CINEMA
  7. JAPANESE CINEMA AND ORIENTALISM 8
  8. 1 A FILMMAKER FOR ALL SEASONS 17
  9. 2 THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING RADICAL: THE DISCIPLINE OF FILM STUDIES AND THE POST-COLONIAL WORLD ORDER 27
  10. 3 GODZILLA AND THE JAPANESE NIGHTMARE: WHEN THEM! IS U.S. 41
  11. 4 MONSTER ISLAND: GODZILLA AND JAPANESE SCI-FI/HORROR/FANTASY 56
  12. SECTION 2 COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS, POST-COLONIAL CRITICISM AND HONG KONG CINEMA
  13. THE POST-COLONIAL HONG KONG CINEMA 62
  14. 5 THE NEW HONG KONG CINEMA ANDTHE DÉJÀ DISPARU 72
  15. 6 KUNG FU: NEGOTIATING NATIONALISM AND MODERNITY 100
  16. 7 UNDER ‘WESTERN EYES’: THE PERSONAL ODYSSEY OF HUANG FEI-HONG IN ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA 126
  17. SECTION 3 CROSS-CULTURAL CRITICISM AND CHINESE CINEMA
  18. CROSS-CULTURAL CRITICISM AND CHINESE CINEMA 148
  19. 8 PROBLEMATIZING CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS: THE CASE OF WOMEN IN THE RECENT CHINESE CINEMA 156
  20. 9 SEEING MODERN CHINA:TOWARD ATHEORY OF ETHNIC SPECTATORSHIP 168
  21. 10 YELLOW EARTH: WESTERN ANALYSIS ANDA NON-WESTERN TEXT 200
  22. PART II FRAMEWORKS OF STUDY
  23. SECTION 4 NATIONAL CINEMA:THE CASE OF TURKEY
  24. TURKISH NATIONAL CINEMA 220
  25. 11 NARRATIVES OF RESISTANCE: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND AMBIVALENCE IN THE TURKISH MELODRAMA BETWEEN 1965 AND 1975 229
  26. 12 TRANSLATING MODERNITY: REMAKES IN TURKISH CINEMA 242
  27. 13 MUTE BODIES, DISEMBODIED VOICES: NOTES ON SOUND IN TURKISH POPULAR CINEMA 255
  28. SECTION 5 GENRE CRITICISM AND POPULAR INDIAN CINEMA
  29. GENRE CRITICISM AND POPULAR INDIAN CINEMA 272
  30. 14 INDIAN CINEMA: PLEASURES AND POPULARITY 280
  31. 15 ADDRESSING THE SPECTATOR OF A ‘THIRD WORLD’ NATIONAL CINEMA:THE BOMBAY ‘SOCIAL’ FILM OFTHE 1940S AND 1950S 295
  32. 16 ‘HUM AAPKE HAIN KOUN?’ – CINEPHILIA AND INDIAN FILMS 317
  33. 17 SHIFTING PITCH: THE BOLLYWOOD SONG SEQUENCE IN THE ANGLO-AMERICAN MARKET 346
  34. SECTION 6 QUESTIONS OF AUTHORSHIP AND TAIWANESE CINEMA
  35. FILM AUTHORSHIP AND TAIWANESE CINEMA 359
  36. ISSUES OF AUTHORSHIP 359
  37. 18 OZU AND THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER IN HOU HSIAO-HSIEN 369
  38. 19 TOKYO LOVE STORY AND NY BAGELS: EAST-WEST CULTURAL ENCOUNTER IN EDWARD YANG’S TAIPEI STORY 384
  39. 20 THE TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA OFANG LEE 393
  40. SECTION 7 STARDOM:THE CASE OF BRUCE LEE
  41. BRUCE LEE: STARDOM AND IDENTITY 405
  42. 21 BRUCE LEE: NARCISSUS AND THE LITTLE DRAGON 414
  43. 22 HAN’S ISLAND REVISITED: ENTER THE DRAGON AS TRANSNATIONAL CULT FILM 426
  44. 23 FISTS OF FURY: DISCOURSES OF RACE AND MASCULINITY IN THE MARTIAL ARTS CINEMA 437
  45. BIBLIOGRAPHY 457
  46. INDEX OF FILMS/TV PROGRAMMES 465
  47. INDEX OF KEY TERMS 470
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