ABSTRACT
This is the first edited volume on new independent Indian cinema. It aims to be a comprehensive compendium of diverse theoretical, philosophical, epistemological and practice-based perspectives, featuring contributions from multidisciplinary scholars and practitioners across the world. This edited collection features analyses of cutting-edge new independent films and is conceived to serve as a beacon to guide future explorations into the burgeoning field of new Indian Cinema studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Introduction
New Independent Indian Cinema: Disciplinary Evolution and Cinematic Revolution
chapter 1|14 pages
Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan
The Politics and Legacies of the New Wave Movement in Contemporary Indian Cinema
chapter 3|20 pages
Breaking Curfew, Presenting Utopia
Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider Inside the National and International Legal Framework
chapter 5|22 pages
Indie Crowdfunded Narratives of Commercial Surrogacy, or the Contested Bodies of Neoliberalism
Onir’s ‘I Am Afia’ and Arpita Kumar’s Sita
chapter 9|22 pages
Zanjeer to Pink
The Trajectory of Amitabh Bachchan’s Angry Young/Old Man Persona From Mainstream to Indie Cinema
chapter 12|17 pages
Untold Stories, Representations and Contestations
Masaan (Crematorium) and Asha Jaoar Majhe (Labour of Love)
chapter 14|24 pages
The Subaltern Screams
Migrant Workers and the Police Station as Spatio-Carceral State of Exception in the Tamil Film Visaranai
