The Routledge Handbook of Indian Indie Cinema

1.Foreword 2. Introduction 3. Interface between Forest and City: Ecofeminist Evaluation of Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri (1970) 4. Two Women and a Film Crew: Female Relational Dynamics and Double Standards of Parallel Cinema in Rituporno Ghosh's Bariwali (2000) 5. Dancing Rain and Marigolden Marriages: Monsoon Wedding (2001) Twenty Years On 6. Wearing the Motley in Rituparno Ghosh's Lear (2007) 7. Manorama Six Feet Under (2007): Understanding the making of a star through the culture of independent cinema 8. Connection and Separation: Art as a Life and Life as an Art in Kiran Rao's Dhobi Ghat (2010) 9. The Ghat of the Only World: Trauma, Dignity, Marginalisation and the City in Onir's I Am (2010) 10. Against Commodification of Films in South Asian (Indian) 'Media-Scape': A Reading of Q's Gandu (2010) 11. "Exotic, Intense, Explosive, Erotic": Gandu (2010) and the Flesh of Cinema 12. A brief inquiry into the ontology of the voyeur in Banerjee's Love, Sex and Dhoka (2010) 13. Beyond the Conventional binary: Rituparno Ghosh's Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish (2012) 14. Ankhon Dekhi (2013): A Curious Case of Objectivity 15. The Lunchbox (2013): A narrative about loneliness and emotional wiltedness 16. Fandry (2013): An act of resistance and assertion 17. Intersectionality and Gender Performativity in Margarita with a Straw (2014) 18. Aligarh (2015): New Cartographies of (Anti)Intimacies in Indian Cinema 19. Masaan (2015): A Cathartic Journey of Reconciliation with Destiny 20. Vituperating the Female Body and Violence in a F-rated Indie Movie Parched (2015) 21. The Male Malady: Confined Spaces and Social Exclusion in A Death in the Gunj (2016) 22. Village Rockstars (2017): Micronarratives of the Nation 23. Angamaly Diaries (2017): Intersectionality and Politics of Violence and Food 24. A camera into the human life: Reading the Ethos of Angamaly Diaries (2017) 25. "Can the Transgender Speak?": A Critical Analysis of Kaushik Ganguly's Nagarkirtan (2017) 26. Silence and Chaos in Nishil Sheth's Bhasmasur (2017) 27. The Poetics, Politics and Patriarchies of Bulbul Can Sing (2018) 28. On Mixing Memory and Desire: Reading Sengupta's Jonaki (2018) as a Chronotope of Nostalgia 29. Striking a fine balance: Duty, Dreams and being true to self in Rohena Gera' Sir (2018) 30. The Organs of Darkness: Horror and Desire in Rahi Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad's Tumbbad (2018) 31. The Fiasco at Funeral: An Insight on the Theme of Death in Pellissery's Ee.Maa.Yau (2018) 32. "When the Reel Represents the Real": Mapping Resistance and Agency against the Post-truth Regime in Anand Patwardhan's Vivek (2018) 33. Widow of Silence (2018) and its Action in Silence 34. Bhaskar Hazarika's Aamis (2019): A Tale of Visceral Journey and Vorarephilia 35. Unruliness of Desire and Consumption in Bhaskar Hazarika's Aamis (2019) 36. Food and politics of othering of Northeastern experiences in Nicholas Kharkongor's Axone (2019) 37. Cargo (2019): Life after Death in Indian Space 38. Gamak Ghar (2019): A Common Story Uncommonly Told 39. Gamak Ghar (2019): The House that Lived in Memory 40. Jallikattu (2019) and the Demise of Multi-species Sociality 41. Eeb Allay Ooo! (2019): A new zoo story 42. Stewing Rebellion in The Great Indian Kitchen (2021)