Madhuri Dixit

by Nandana Bose, Martin Shingler (Editor), Susan Smith (Editor)

Overview

A wide-ranging account of the Indian film star Madhuri Dixit, one of the most popular actresses of Hindi cinema. Nandana Bose's study traces Dixit's twenty-five year career, exploring her star persona, her indelible impact on Indian popular culture, and her continuing popularity even in middle age. Nandana Bose discusses Dixit's unusual and distinctive career trajectory that upends pre-existing models of female stardom, by marrying at the peak of her career, withdrawing from the limelight for years, and then returning to extend her career into her early fifties by reinventing herself as a transmedia celebrity for a new generation. However, it is her unique talent as a dancer, and her innovative choreographic styles and repertoire of movements that make her standout from other Hindi film stars. Surveying Dixit's film-making career, Bose argues that she represents a wholesome and traditional figure of femininity that has resonated across class and cultural hierarchies at a time of great economic and social change in India.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844576296
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/04/2019
Series:	Film Stars
Edition description:	1st ed. 2018
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 7.66(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

Dr. Nandana Bose is Associate Professor at the Foundation for Liberal Arts and Management Education (FLAME) in Pune, India. She was Associate Professor at the Department of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), USA from 2009 to 2017. She has been published in such journals as Cinema Journal, Celebrity Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Velvet Light Trap, and Studies in South Asian Film and Media, and anthologies such as Figurations in Indian Film (2010), Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship Around the World (2013), and Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors and their Cinema (2017).

Martin Shingler is Senior Lecturer in Radio and Film Studies at the University of Sunderland, UK. He is the co-author of two books, On Air: Methods and Meanings of Radio, with Cindy Wieringa, (1998) and Melodrama: Genre, Style& Sensibility, with John Mercer (2004). He has also published essays on the Hollywood film star Bette Davis in the books Hollywood Spectatorship, eds. Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby (BFI, 2001) and Screen Acting, eds. Alan Lovell and Peter Kramer, (1999), and in Screen, the Journal of American Studies, the Journal of Film& Video, Theatre Annual and Film History. He has edited a dossier on Bette Davis for Screen (2008) and an edition of the Radio Journal (2008). He is co-editor, with Susan Smith, of the BFI Film Stars series, and author of 'Star Studies: A Critical Guide' (BFI, 2012).

Susan Smith is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sunderland, UK. She is author of Elizabeth Taylor (BFI/Palgrave, 2012), Voices in Film (Wallflower Press, 2007), The Musical: Race, Gender and Performance (Columbia University Press, 2005) and Hitchcock: Suspense, Humour and Tone (BFI, 2000). She also co-edits the BFI's Film Stars series.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
INDIA'S DHAK-DHAK/HEARTBEAT GIRL: RISE TO STARDOM
A ZEITGEIST ICON
THE DANCING STAR
FROM STAR TO CELEBRITY
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FILMOGRAPHY
INDEX