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Bollywood's Corporeal Turn: Aesthetic Response and Diasporic Memory

By Vijay Mishra, Sudesh Mishra
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By Vijay Mishra, Sudesh Mishra
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Explores Bollywood cinema’s aesthetic, cultural and corporeal dimensions across foundational genres, iconic performers and diasporic narratives, highlighting the interplay of narrative, poetry, the body and national and transnational identities.

The first substantive chapter of the book recovers the special allure of Parsi theatre and the role of the Muslim courtesan in Bollywood cinema. If the first provided a foundational cinematic scaffolding, the Muslim courtesan films gave the cinema i...

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