City Flicks - Indian Cinema and the Urban Experience

Acknowledgements vii Introduction Unreal City: Cinematic Representation, Globalization and the Ambiguities of Metropolitan Life 1(25) Preben Kaarsholm Urban Legends: Notes on a Theme in Early Film Theory 26(14) Peter Larsen The City and the Real: Chhinnamul and the Left Cultural Movement in the 1940s 40(20) Moinak Biswas Reading a Song of the City---Images of the City in Literature and Films 60(22) Sudipta Kaviraj Realism and Fantasy in Representations of Metropolitan Life in Indian Cinema 82(17) M. Madhava Prasad A Close-Up on Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children 99(12) Martin Zerlang The `Bollywoodization' of the Indian Cinema: Cultural Nationalism in a Global Arena 111(27) Ashish Rajadhyaksha Chalo Jahaji: Bollywood in the Tracks of Indenture to Globalization 138(42) Manas Ray Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema in Nigeria 180(27) Brian Larkin The Politics of Urban Segregation and Indian Cinema in Durban 207(12) Vashna Jagarnath The Exhilaration of Dread: Genre, Narrative Form and Film Style in Contemporary Urban Action Films 219(14) Ravi S. Vasudevan Vigilantism and the Pleasures of Masquerade: The Female Spectator of Vijayasanthi Films 233(18) Tejaswini Niranjana Bibliography 251(21) Contributors 272