Indian Film Stars: New Critical Perspectives

Indian Film Stars provides original insights and critical reappraisals of film stardom in India from the 1930s to the present, exploring the development of film star cultures, industrial construction, labor, aesthetics, and audience investment. The book examines star images, bodies, and careers in relation to tradition, modernity, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, cosmopolitan mobility, and transnational migration, and their significance for different sectors of the audience.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 264 pages
\n Publication date: 28 May 2020
\n Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Indian Film Stars is a groundbreaking collection that delves into the captivating world of film stardom in India,spanning from the early talkie era of the 1930s to the contemporary era of global blockbusters. This comprehensive collection represents a significant contribution to our understanding of the evolution of film star cultures in India throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The contributors aim to ignite and inspire further exploration into the intricate histories of film stardom, encompassing the industrial creation and promotion of star personalities, the real-life experiences and imagined lifestyles of professional stars, the intricate relationships between stars and specific aesthetic cinematic conventions, such as frontality and song-dance, as well as the impact of production technologies like the play-back system and post-synchronization. Furthermore, the book examines the profound investment and devotion of audiences across India's diverse film production centers and the increasingly international realms of film distribution and reception. The star images, star bodies, and star careers analyzed in this collection are explored in relation to a wide array of themes, including the negotiation and contestation of tradition and modernity, the embodiment and expression of both Indian and non-Indian values and trends; the representation of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and cosmopolitan mobility and transnational migration; innovative performance styles; the construction and transformation of public personas; the stars' associations with film studios and the mainstream media; the stars' relationships with historical, political, and cultural change and memory; and the stars' meanings and values for specific (including marginalized) sectors of the audience.

\n Weight: 588g\n
Dimension: 192 x 245 x 13 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781844578542\n \n