INTERPRETING CINEMA: Adaptations, Intertextualities, Art Movements

Book Details

• Author: Jasbir Jain

• Publisher: RAWAT PUBLICATIONS

• Edition: Not specified

• Binding: Hardcover

• Number of Pages: 298

• ISBN: 9788131611425

• Languages: English

• Release Date: 01-12-2020

About The Book

Exploring Cinematic Narratives: Essays on Film and Culture by Jasbir Jain is a deep and comprehensive analysis of various aspects of cinema and its cultural, historical, and societal impacts. Through insightful essays, Jain explores topics ranging from cinema's role in shaping national identity to the portrayal of women and gender issues in Hindi films.

Key sections include:

1. Interpreting Cinema: A Retrospect and an Analysis

2. Travelling Memories: Between Word and Image

3. Theatre into Film: Adaptations and Cultural Formations

4. Birthing the ‘New’? Intertextuality, Grafting, Recycling: Text–Image–Text Journeys

5. Refraction or Parallel Narrative?: The Imaging of Bedi’s Ek Chadar Maili Si

6. Histories of Violence: Little Narratives Countering Master Narratives

7. Art and Power Dynamics: Mirza Ghalib and Shatranj Ke Khilari

8. Constructing the Nation through the Semiotics of Difference

9. Deepa Mehta’s ‘Elements’ Trilogy: Exploring the Nation’s Past

10. Body as Text: Women Transgressors and Hindi Cinema

11. Reclaiming the Body: The Gender of Creativity

12. Urbanscapes, Shifting Cultures and the Film Narrative

13. Fathers and Daughters: An Enigmatic Bond

14. Surrealism in an Anonymous City: Raj Kapoor’s Jagte Raho

15. Value as Integrator in Modernity: Re-viewing Feminist Theory in Dor

16. Exteriorising the Self: Film Autobiographies

This book is a crucial read for anyone interested in film studies, feminist theory, and cultural analysis, offering both theoretical insights and practical interpretations of cinematic works. It serves as an engaging resource for students, academics, and professionals in the fields of cinema, literature, and cultural studies.