Indian Literature and Popular Cinema: Recasting Classics (Routledge Contemporary South Asia) (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

by HeidiR.M.Pauwels (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $156.41

  Cover the popular cinema of North India ( Bollywood ) and how it recasts literary classics. This work addresses the socio-political implications of popular reinterpretations of elite culture , exploring gender issues and the perceived sexism of the North Indian popular film and how that plays out when literature is reworked into film.