Filming the Gods Religion and Indian Cinema (Routledge)

Filming the Gods Religion and Indian Cinema (Routledge) Book Description

Filming the Gods examines the role and depiction of religion in Indian cinema, showing that the relationship between the modern and the traditional in contemporary India is not exotic, but part of everyday life. Concentrating mainly on the Hindi cinema of Mumbai, Bollywood, it also discusses India's other cinemas.


Rachel Dwyer's lively discussion encompasses the mythological genre which continues India's long tradition of retelling Hindu myths and legends, and draws on sources such as the national epics of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana; the devotional genre, which flourished at the height of the nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s; and the film made in Bombay that depict India's Islamicate culture, including the historical, the courtesan film and the 'Muslim social' genre. Filming the Gods also examines the presence of the religious across other genres and how cinema represents religious communities and their beliefs and practices. As a result, Filming the Gods is both a guide to the study of film in religious culture as well as a historical overview of Indian religious film.

Contents


List of figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The mythological film

2 The devotional film

3 The Islamicate film

4 The religious and the secular in the Hindi film

5 Concluding remarks

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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