ISBN:
0292737858
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9780292737853
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 304 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mehta, Monika, 1970- Censorship and sexuality in Bombay cinema
DDC:
303.3/76
Keywords:
Motion pictures History 20th century
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Sex in motion pictures
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Sex role in motion pictures
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Motion pictures Censorship
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures ; Censorship
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Sex in motion pictures
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Sex role in motion pictures
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Film
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Filmproduktion
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Sexualität
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Zensur
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Bollywood
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Indienbild
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Film
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Sexualität
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Zensur
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History
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India ; Mumbai
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Bombay
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Indien
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Electronic book
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Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
Beginning -- Revisiting the history of film censorship -- Close-up: the Central Board of Film Certification -- The first sex-education film: a classification conundrum -- Satyam shivam sundaram: (im)proper suturing of sound, scar, and stardom -- An anomalous dilemma: to ban or to certify the self-sacrificial wife in Pati parmeshwar -- Tracking the twists and turns in the Khalnayak -- Debates on censorship -- Dilwale dulhania le jayenge: certifying a "family love" story -- From censorship to selections.
Abstract:
India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexuality in Bombay cinema. She studies how film censorship on various levels makes the female body and female sexuality pivotal in constructing national identity, not just through the films themselves but also through the heated debates that occur in newspapers and other periodicals. The standard claim is that the state dictates censorship and various prohibitions, but Mehta explores how relationships among the state, the film industry, and the public illuminate censorship's role in identity formation, while also examining how desire, profits, and corruption are generated through the act of censoring. Committed to extending a feminist critique of mass culture in the global south, Mehta situates the story of censorship in a broad social context and traces the intriguing ways in which the heated debates on sexuality in Bombay cinema actually produce the very forms of sexuality they claim to regulate. She imagines afresh the theoretical field of censorship by combining textual analysis, archival research, and qualitative fieldwork. Her analysis reveals how central concepts of film studies, such as stardom, spectacle, genre, and sound, are employed and (re)configured within the ambit of state censorship, thereby expanding the scope of their application and impact
Note:
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Minnesota, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
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