Brave New Bollywood (Hardback)  | Released: 06 Feb 2015

These are interesting times in the history of Indian cinema, particularly because the established aesthetic conventions and modes of production of the Hindi film industry are being challenged, as are the boundaries between what is alternative and what is mainstream. This book is an attempt to contextualize the upsurge in this form of cinema in Bollywood/Hindi film industry. It also aims to promote an academic enquiry into the works of these filmmakers, their religious beliefs, social moorings, cinematic influences, attitudes towards filmmaking and experiences of making movies. It will be an important reading for serious students of South Asian studies, film studies and media studies as well as the general reader who has an interest in cinema.Table of Contents: Brave New Bollywood: An IntroductionDibakar Banerjee: Of Milieu, Technique and the Dialectic of Anti-dumb CinemaKiran Rao: The Personal as the Voyeur�The Aesthetics of MeaningReema Kagti� Collaboration and Commerce�Treading the Thin LineZoya Akhtar: Urban and Unapologetic�The Cinema of Zoya AkhtarShonali Bose: Loss and Survival�The Cinema of MeaningAnusha Rizvi: Content as King�How Stories Create FilmmakersOnir: The Politics at the Margins�Being an Alternative Filmmaker in BollywoodTigmanshu Dhulia: The Alternative as Mainstream�Blurring the Boundaries in Cinematic Tradition