"Taking Bangalore in southern India as its point of departure, this book explores the ways in which artists across India and beyond foreground neoliberalism as an inescapable market logic that permeates aesthetics, selfhood, and everyday life"--
"Taking Bangalore in southern India as its point of departure, this book explores the ways in which artists across India and beyond foreground neoliberalism as an inescapable market logic that permeates aesthetics, selfhood, and everyday life"--
"Taking Bangalore in southern India as its point of departure, this book explores the ways in which artists across India and beyond foreground neoliberalism as an inescapable market logic that permeates aesthetics, selfhood, and everyday life"--
"This book presents a lucid, comprehensive, and entertaining narrative of culture and society in late 19th- and early 20th-century Maharashtra through a perceptive study of its theatre and cinema. An intellectual tour de force, it will be invaluable to scholars and researchers o…
Susan Schwartz illuminates the central role of religion in Indian arts, & how Indian aesthetics are founded in religious belief & practice.
"While many people outside India find the images, sounds, and practices of Indian performing arts compelling and endeavor to incorporate them into the "global" repertoire, few are aware of the central role of religious belief and practice in Indian aesthetics. Completing the tri…
Susan Schwartz illuminates the central role of religion in Indian arts, & how Indian aesthetics are founded in religious belief & practice.
"This book is a road map for the fast-changing entertainment landscape of India. It succinctly outlines how film entertainment in India is no longer just an artistic or creative enterprise. This is due to the rapid convergence of various media - home video, satellite television,…
Convenient coincidences and glycerine tears, star-crossed lovers and happy endings, mindless songs and energetic dances ... These elements, and more, have sustained the Bollywood brand of cinema for nearly a century, so much so that it has now found acceptance across continents.…
