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| 082 | _a791.430 PAU | ||
| 100 | _aPaunksnis, Sarunas | ||
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_aDark fear, eerie cities _b:new Hindi cinema in Neoliberal India _c/ Sarunas Paunksnis |
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_aNew Delhi _b: Oxford University Press, _c2019. |
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_axx, 172 pages _c; 23 cm |
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| 365 | _b895 | ||
| 505 | _aUnderstanding cinematic transformations and neoliberal culture in India -- Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear: imagination and the other -- Haunting and uncanny cities of neoliberal India -- Film noir and the dark spaces of new Hindi cinema -- Screening masculine anxiety: men, women and violence. | ||
| 520 | _aDark Fear, Eerie Cities analyzes a film form that began to emerge in Hindi cinema in early 21st century - a form that is marked by realism, by focusing on urban life and culture of the new middle class, as well as pessimism, violence, fear and the presence of the 'other' in many forms. The author locates new cinematic developments in a much broader context of sociocultural change in contemporary India, and traces the roots of imagining India 'darkly'. The book looks at the new Hindi cinema from different angles and through analysis of crime thrillers and horror films aims to answer some fundamental questions, Why is there so much of pessimism?; What impact does neoliberalism have on the city and cinematic representations?; Why does the darkness, actual and metaphorical, proliferate?; What haunts the city, and why?; Why is the city so dark and eerie?; And what is the relationship between fear and violence on screen and the actual "dark side" of urban life, crime, insecurity one may feel while living in a metropolis, physical insecurity as well as a psychological, one of competition, a desire to succeed and to belong to 'global India | ||
| 650 | _aArts | ||
| 650 | _aOutline of sports, games & entertainment | ||
| 650 | _aPublic performances | ||
| 650 | _aMotion pictures, Hindi -- History -- 21st century. | ||
| 650 | _aRealism in motion pictures. | ||
| 650 | _aMotion pictures -- India -- History and criticism. | ||
| 650 | _aBibel -- Philemonbrief | ||
| 650 | _aSozialer Wandel | ||
| 700 | _aPaunksnis, Sarunas | ||
| 942 | _cBOOK | ||