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<div align="center"><font face="Garamond">Wednesday 19 April
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color="#FF0000"><b>Vijay Mishra</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Garamond" size="+2" color="#000000">This paper
examines, in very broad terms, the genealogy of Bollywood cinema from
the mid-thirties to the early twenty-first century. It examines
the relationship between this cinema and Indian aesthetic forms
(notably the epic and dramaturgical traditions), the legacy of
colonial genres (especially the melodramatic novel), hybrid
Parsi theatre, and the spectres of diaspora. Using a range of films
(from the three versions of <i> Devdas</i> and the films of
Mehboob Khan to Amir Khan's<i> Lagaan</i> ["Land Tax"], Yash
Johar's<i> Kal Ho Naa Ho</i> ["If tomorrow never comes"] and
Ashutosh Gowarikar's<i> Swades</i> ["Homeland"])the paper
attempts to think through the ways in which the old Bombay
(Hindi/Urdu) cinema has now become Bollywood.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Garamond" size="+2" color="#000000"><b>Vijay
Mishra</b> is Professor of English Literature at Murdoch University.
He holds doctorates from the ANU and Oxford. Among his publications
are<i> Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the
Postcolonial Mind</i> (with Bob Hodge)(1991),<i> The Gothic
Sublime</i> (1994),<i> Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime</i>
(1998), and<i> Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire</i> (2002). His
most recent publication (co-authored with Bob Hodge) is 'What was
Postcolonialism?' (<i>New Literary History</i>, Summer 2005). He has
(finally) completed a book length study of the literature of the
Indian diaspora. He is currently working on a book on Salman
Rushdie.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Garamond">Dr James Donald<br>
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Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre<br>
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