ReFocus : the films of Zoya Akhtar /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2022
Description:	243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	ReFocus, the international directors series. ReFocus: the international directors series.
Subject:	Akhtar, Zoya -- Criticism and interpretation. Women motion picture producers and directors -- India.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12778578

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Varying Form of Title:	Films of Zoya Akhtar
Other authors / contributors:	Magazine, Aakshi, editor. Shields, Amber, editor.
ISBN:	9781474476416 1474476414
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Examines the work of Hindi film director, screenwriter and producer Zoya Akhtar. Provides a contemporary study on the shift of the Hindi film industry by examining one of the leading directors of New BollywoodHighlights the role of women filmmakers in popular, mainstream film industries. Zoya Akhtar has become a prominent figure representing change in Bollywood. As the first collection on Akhtar, this book examines how she is contributing to a shift in one of the world's leading film industries, and through analysis of her work explores the contradictions and possibilities of the present moment in Bollywood.

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Intersecting Industries
Part I Growing up Industry
1 Loving but Critical: The Empathetic Gaze of Luck by Chance
2 Relocating Bollywood: Gully Boy and the Worlds of Hip-hop
3 New Forms, New Stories: Zoya Akhtar's Short Films
4 Zoya Akhtar as a Screenwriter: Making Niche the New Mainstream
Part II Reworking Bollywood Themes
5 The Heterotopia of Family Relation-Ship in Dil Dhadakne Do
6 Sabka Time Aayega: Language and the City in Gully Boy
7 Queer Love: He is Also Made in Heaven
Part III A New Era of Gendered Politics
8 Conflicted and Confused: The Changing Complexity of Masculinity in Zoya Akhtar's Films
9 Señoritas at Work: Gendered Work, Aspiration and Leisure in the Films of Zoya Akhtar
10 Self-made vs Self-respect: The Politics of Belonging in Zoya Akhtar's Films
Part IV The Word and the Screen
11 Deconstructing the Perception of 'The Elite Class Filmmaker': A Critical Analysis of Mainstream Film Reviews of Zoya Akhtar's Cinema
12 The Final Word: An Interview with Zoya Akhtar
General Index
Index of Films

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