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Routledge Indian Indies 1st Edition 2022 Hardbound by Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram
A must-have quick guide to the future torchbearers of Indian cinema for scholars, students, early career researchers, and a global audience interested in intersecting aspects of cinema, culture, politics, and society in contemporary IndiaThis book offers a concise and cutting-edge repository of essential information on new independent Indian films, which have orchestrated a recent renaissance in the Bollywood-dominated Indian cinema sphereThe book spotlights a specific timeline from the Indies' consolidated emergence in 2010 across a decade of their developmentTakes note of recent transformations in the Indian political, economic, cultural, and social matrix and the concurrent release of unflinchingly interrogative and radically evocative films that traverse LGBTQ issues, female empowerment, caste discrimination, populist politics and religious violenceA combination of essential Indie-specific information and concise case-studies