Film Studies II: Bollywood, Hollywood, and Asian Cinema
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Jai Ho! to Transnational Cinema?: A Case of Hollywood’s Fetishism of Bollywood in Slumdog Millionaire. Amrita Ghosh, Drew University
This paper argues that Slumdog Millionaire presents an essentialized production of the genre of ‘masala’ Bollywood films that fetishizes Indian commercial cinema. It presents a monolithic view of Bollywood and valorizes masala films as synonymous with Indian cinema.
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Hello, Sister, How Do You Do? Deepa Mehta's Bollywood Hollywood as Satire. James Aubrey, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Although often discounted as a caprice, Bollywood Hollywood deserves to be recognized as a comic satire of many diasporic Indian values, from the traditional, patriarchal family structure and related practices to excessive admiration of formulaic cinema.
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"Well, originally, I guess we came here on a spiritual journey—but that didn't really pan out”: Tracking Spirituality and Derailed Alterity in Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited. John Sweeney, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Utilizing Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited as an occasion both to demonstrate and problematize conceptions of postcolonial spirituality and alterity, this paper demystifies the apparitions besetting Anderson's imag(in)ing of India and otherness within contemporary American cinema.
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“Reproductive Abandonment” and “Recreational Abandon": The Problem of Globalization in Chinese Language Cinema. David Li, University of Oregon
I shall read representative texts from contemporary Chinese cinema to argue that the problem of globalization is the problem of “reproductive abandonment” and “recreational abandon.”
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