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Qissa and Popular Hindi Cinema

In: Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), pp. 183-194
"While acknowledging the contribution of the dominant Hindi Sanskritic narrative tradition to the shaping of popular Hindi cinema, this chapter aims to explore the alternative narrative streams that have governed storytelling in Hindi films, particularly the Perso-Arabic legacy of the qissa and dast ... more

Clouds of Unknowing: Buddhism and Bhutanese Cinema

In: Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), pp. 157-171
"In this chapter, we have looked at how Buddhism and orality have been translated into film in Bhutan. We have argued, that cinema operates as a secondary oral medium, through the various rituals of production, distribution and consumption and, most significantly, at the level of story construction. ... more