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03250aam a2200313 i 4500 001 8A6ED366664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221117010035 008 200810s2021 stka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781474476416 020 $a 1474476414 035 $a (OCoLC)1182851329 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d TJC $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PN1998.3.A4356 $b F556 2022 245 04 $a The films of Zoya Akhtar / $c edited by Aakshi Magazine and Amber Shields. 246 30 $a Films of Zoya Akhtar 264 1 $a Edinburgh : $b Edinburgh University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a 243 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a Examines the work of Hindi film director, screenwriter and producer Zoya AkhtarProvides 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 industriesOf interest to Hindi film scholars as well as global feminist film students and scholarsFrom her relatively small-scale feature debut Luck By Chance (2009) to her recent premieres of Gully Boy (2019) and Made in Heaven (2019) to local and global audiences via the Berlin Film Festival and Amazon Prime Streaming services, 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Index of Films $t Contents -- $t List of Figures -- $t Notes on Contributors -- $t Introduction: Intersecting Industries -- $t Part I Growing up Industry -- $t 1 Loving but Critical: The Empathetic Gaze of Luck by Chance -- $t 2 Relocating Bollywood: Gully Boy and the Worlds of Hip-hop -- $t 3 New Forms, New Stories: Zoya Akhtar's Short Films -- $t 4 Zoya Akhtar as a Screenwriter: Making Niche the New Mainstream -- $t Part II Reworking Bollywood Themes -- $t 5 The Heterotopia of Family Relation-Ship in Dil Dhadakne Do -- $t 6 Sabka Time Aayega: Language and the City in Gully Boy -- $t 7 Queer Love: He is Also Made in Heaven -- $t Part III A New Era of Gendered Politics -- $t 8 Conflicted and Confused: The Changing Complexity of Masculinity in Zoya Akhtar's Films -- $t 9 Señoritas at Work: Gendered Work, Aspiration and Leisure in the Films of Zoya Akhtar -- $t 10 Self-made vs Self-respect: The Politics of Belonging in Zoya Akhtar's Films -- $t Part IV The Word and the Screen -- $t 11 Deconstructing the Perception of 'The Elite Class Filmmaker': A Critical Analysis of Mainstream Film Reviews of Zoya Akhtar's Cinema -- $t 12 The Final Word: An Interview with Zoya Akhtar -- $t General Index -- $t Index of Films 600 10 $a Akhtar, Zoya $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Women motion picture producers and directors $z India. 700 1 $a Magazine, Aakshi, $e editor. 700 1 $a Shields, Amber, $e editor. 830 0 $a ReFocus: the international directors series. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117024914.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8A6ED366664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search