Book chapter
Cinema
Studying Hinduism, pp.53-70
Routledge
2008
DOI: 10.4324/9780203939734-8
Abstract
Indian popular films have a definite “flavor.” This is generally recognized (and one indigenous descriptor of them is indeed as masālā or “spicy”), even by Anglo-Americans who encounter them while surfing cable TV channels and not simply because the actors happen to be Indian. The films look, sound, and feel different in important ways, and a kind of cinematic culture shock may accompany a first prolonged exposure. An American film scholar, after viewing his first “masālā blockbuster,” remarked to me that the various cinemas he had studied-American, French, Japanese, African-all seemed to play by a similar set of aesthetic rules, “but this is a different universe.”
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cinema
- Creators
- Philip Lutgendorf - University of Iowa, South Asian Studies Program
- Contributors
- Sushil Mittal (Editor)Gene Thursby (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Studying Hinduism, pp.53-70
- DOI
- 10.4324/9780203939734-8
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2008
- Academic Unit
- Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984398016802771
Metrics
6 Record Views