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Trends in Contemporary Assamese Theatre

By: Namrata Pathak

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Trends in Contemporary Assamese Theatre

By: Namrata Pathak

It is the very nature of representation to be theatrical and self-referential. This book undercuts the fact that all representational knowledge is autonomous and sovereign. At times, theatrical representations can misguide and mislead. Representation can also ineluctably project ones own preferences and preoccupations. Thus, representation and subjective interpretation divulge into myriad domains. This book is concerned with the effects and consequences of representation and its politics. This book examines not only how language as well as representation produce meaning, but also how discursive knowledge connected to power regulates, conducts, and constructs identities and defines the way certain things are thought about practices and are studied. The book takes note of the fact that within the framework of performance, a performative subject does not wear a coherent identity as it is fragmented, decentered, simulated and is unstable, while being both virtual as well as actual. In the field of semiotics, theatre is historically and reciprocally affected by practice, especially within contingent conditions of time. In theatre semiotics, the new image of knowledge is that of turbulence. Here, knowledge is not so much a system as it is a confluence. Carrying this stance further we can say that contemporary Assamese theatre is characterised by shifting counter-voices and sub-textual underpinnings. This act forces reading into two directions: dialogic openness and variability of meaning that question the theatre directors as the only ones who know.

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Partridge Publishing

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1482846543

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9781482846546

Reel India

Cinema off the Beaten Track

By: Namrata Joshi

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Reel India

Cinema off the Beaten Track

By: Namrata Joshi

‘Picture abhi baaki hai...’ If there’s one experience that unites India, it is cinema. In Reel India, award-winning film critic Namrata Joshi journeys through the interiors of the country intimately chronicling little-known accounts about the nation’s incessant obsession with the movies. In Lucknow, she encounters a Shah Rukh Khan fan who has embraced an alternate reality in which he lives and breathes the star. In Wai, she finds an entire economy fuelled by the film industry as the town transforms into a film set. An activist filmmaker in Odisha demonstrates how he teaches local tribal people the basics of his craft, empowering them to train the spotlight on issues threatening their habitat and livelihood. From the fever pitch of the ‘first day first show’ in makeshift halls to the rivalries of regional cinema, this is India’s immersion in the movies like it’s never been seen before. Filled with real-life stories that are as fascinating as the revelations and insights they offer, Reel India raises the curtain on the starry-eyed dreams and big-screen passions that live on after the final ‘cut’ is announced.

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Hachette India

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9350097281

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9789350097281

The Neoliberal Self in Bollywood

Cinema, Popular Culture, and Identity

By: Namrata Rele Sathe

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The Neoliberal Self in Bollywood

Cinema, Popular Culture, and Identity

By: Namrata Rele Sathe

This book explores the consequences of unbridled expansion of neoliberal values within India through the lens of popular film and culture. The focus of the book is the neoliberal self, which, far from being a stable marker of urban, liberal, millennial Indian identity, has a schizophrenic quality, one that is replete with contradictions and oppositions, unable to sustain the weight of its own need for self-promotion, optimism, and belief in a narrative of progress and prosperity that has marked mainstream cultural discourse in India. The unstable and schizophrenic neoliberal identity that is the concern of this book, however, belies this narrative and lays bare the sense of precarity and inherent inequality that neoliberal regimes confer upon their subjects. The analysis is explicitly political and draws upon theories of feminist media studies, popular culture analyses, and film studies to critique mainstream Hindi cinema texts produced in the last two decades. Rele Sathe also examine a variety of other peripheral ‘texts’ in her analysis such as the film star, the urban space, web series, YouTube videos, and social media content.

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Intellect Books

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1789388813

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9781789388817

Performing Arun Sarma

Theatricality, Transgression, Transformation

By: Namrata Pathak,Dhurjjati Sarma

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Performing Arun Sarma

Theatricality, Transgression, Transformation

By: Namrata Pathak,Dhurjjati Sarma

This book, a collection of essays on and reviews of the life and works of Arun Sarma, contributes towards generating and sustaining academic engagement with the renowned litterateur of Assam, India, on both national and global platforms. It will push forth his legacy beyond the linguistic and geographical barriers of the Indian state, and develop a congenial environment for generating a new and active reading public—a vibrant community of literary enthusiasts all over the world. The book serves as an extension of the avowed goal of Arun Sarma as a playwright and novelist to rise above barriers of all kinds, resulting in the production of a body of knowledge on theatre of Assam. The book will be of use to academics, students, and research scholars of English literature, writings from North-East India, performance studies, theatre studies, India studies, south Asian cultures, and cultural studies, among others.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1036402150

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Trends in Contemporary Assamese Theatre

Trends in Contemporary Assamese Theatre

Reel India

Reel India

The Neoliberal Self in Bollywood

The Neoliberal Self in Bollywood

Performing Arun Sarma

Performing Arun Sarma

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