Qissa and Popular Hindi Cinema

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgements v
4. Contributors vii
5. Introduction To Volume Two 1
6. Storytelling and Cultural Politics
7. stories as social critique: the Vision of china in the Films of Jia Zhangke 11
8. Taonga (cultural treasures): reflections on Maori storytelling in the cinema of Aotearoa/new Zealand 21
9. The Minjung Cultural Movement and Korean Cinema of the 1980s: The Influence of Minjung theatre and Art in Lee Jang-ho’s Films 35
10. On How to Tell a Revolution: Alsino y el Cóndor 50
11. Storytelling and Postcolonialism
12. Telling Stories About Unknown People in Faraway Countries: us Travelogues About Mexico in the 1930S and 1940S 65
13. Memory And Tradition as a Postcolonial Response in the Films of Kyrgyzstan’S Aktan Abdykalykov 76
14. ‘Postcolonial Beaux’ Stratagem: Singing and Dancing Back with Carmen in African Films 90
15. Telling Women’S Stories
16. Heard/Symbolic Voices: The Nouba of the Women of Mont Chenoua and Women’S Film in the Maghreb 103
17. Women’S Stories and Public Space in Iranian new Wave Film 122
18. Cinematic Images of Women at a Time of National(Ist) Crisis: The Case of Three Yugoslav Films 133
19. History as Science Fiction: Women of Action in Hong Kong Cinema 144
20. Storytelling and Religio-Cultural Encounters
21. Clouds Of Unknowing: Buddhism and Bhutanese Cinema 157
22. Claiming Space, Time and History in the Journals of Knud Rasmussen 172
23. Qissa and Popular Hindi Cinema 183
24. Index 195