Deja Viewed : Nation, Gender, and Genre in Bollywood Remakes of Hollywood Cinema

State University of New York Press

Dj ViewedNation, Gender, and Genre in Bollywood Remakes of Hollywood Cinema\nAuthor(s): Gohar Siddiqui\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9798855802955, 979-8855802955\nSynopsis\nSituates the remake as one of the primary responses to Bollywood's globalization and corporatization.\n\nFocused on post-1990 Bollywood remakes of Hollywood films, Dj Viewed tells a larger story of the rapidly changing Indian film industry in the wake of globalization and corporatization. It situates the remake as a gendered response to these changes, drawing on approaches from film theory, gender studies, and cultural studies. The book looks at films from a variety of genres and modes, including the Bollywood family film, romantic comedy, noir, and melodrama, and each film's close analysis is accompanied by attention to concerns related to remake theory, such as homage, anxiety of influence, defamiliarization.