Figurations in Indian Film

Introduction: Meheli Sen PART I: POLITICAL AND TYPOLOGICAL FIGURES 1. Sensate Outlaws: The Recursive Social Bandit in Indian Popular Cultures; Bishnupriya Ghosh 2. What Happened to Khadi? Dress and Costume in Bombay Cinema; Anupama Kapse 3. Configuring the Other: The Detective and the Real in Satyajit Ray's Chiriakhana; Gautam Basu Thakur PART II: GENERIC MUTATIONS 4. Diverting Diseases; M. Madhava Prasad 5. Nevla as Dracula: Figurations of the Tantric as Monster in the Hindi Horror Film; Usha Iyer 6. Haunted Havelis and Hapless Heroes: Gender, Genre and the Hindi Gothic Film; Meheli Sen PART III: STAR FIGURES 7. 'The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships': Helen and Public Femininity in Hindi Film; Anustup Basu 8. From Superman to Shahenshah: Stardom and the Transfigurative Body of Hrithik Roshan; Nandana Bose 9. Con-figurations: The Body as World in Bollywood Stardom; Sumita S. Chakravarty PART IV: FIGURING (OUT) NEW BOLLYWOOD 10. Metafiguring Bollywood: (Brecht after Om Shanti Om); Bhaskar Sarkar 11. Bodies in Syncopation; Moinak Biswas 12. Between Violetta and Vasantasena is Toulouse-Lautrec: Cinematic Avatars and Bollywood in Moulin Rouge!; Kirsten Strayer Afterword; Anustup Basu