Search Results for devotional film

... temple built during the period when the name of the city, Bombay, was changed to the local version of the city's name, said to derive from the goddess Mumba Devi. The article looks at a devotional film about Siddhivinayak, produced in cooperation with the shrine, to see how Ganesh is understood today...

...Nira Wickramasinghe Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1992 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. MI No. 1 (Spring 1W). Preface Nira Wickramasinghe In the face of mounting violence and terror in Sri Laleen Jayamanne devotes her entire paper to film. As Lanka a small group...

... of film, aural recordings, photographs, and more, this article follows the many mutations of the eulogy-turned-anthem to identify the various ways ethnography and documentary works frame blackness in Iran. Kurdizadeh's life and marginalized legacy highlights the tacit erasure of blackness on the national...

...Nandini Chandra This article depicts the closing of the distance between a rational public sphere and popular Hindi cinema in view of a spurt of youth-related Hindi films in the 2000s, especially Rang de basanti (2006). Rang de basanti is taken as the starting point for a discussion of the idea...

... of a di- scendence in much the same way the devotional vine will in the lives of people in modern Iran. practices of the “conventional” religions claim The God at issue is the God of the Iranian na- to.11 Armed with an understanding of popular tion that bears relation to but is different from film...

... — if highly controversial — themes in the Iranian cinema. In this essay I explore these developments through a discussion of three films, which in different ways were landmarks in the passage out of the shadows and became the focus of heated debates for their transgression of the rules...

..., the screen o ered question is how space, constantly produced in many potential mediator figures; however, in the dynamic between control and resistance, German fictional films, depictions of women can be “inhabited and transformed by perfor- wearing the Muslim headscarf are rare. For ex- mance...

... to recognize one's own loss through its reflection in the other's ruins. 12. Messika's films were often produced on low budgets, without the financial support of national and international funds or official media channels. Furthermore, the broad distribution of his films was achieved mainly outside...

...Yasmin Moll Abstract The practice of feigning weeping in devotional contexts, including in hortatory preaching, is closely associated in Egypt with Islamic Revivalism. It is an expression of pious humility through which worshippers pretend to cry in order to (ideally) develop the embodied capacity...

...Salma Siddique Abstract This essay examines the missing national film archive of Pakistan against the politics of competing cultural memory. Sharing a common past yet existing in the shadows of the Indian film industry, cinema in Pakistan found itself in an unusual predicament after decolonization...

..., I contend that such exaggerations are translate into an ability to predict its commercial not unlike the spectacular projections of growth outcome. For example, an issue of Variety appear- and hyperbolic estimates of the size of the film ing in March 2011 devoted completely to market industry...

... to an invitation to revolt. All this at the end of daylight, as work gives way to rest, action to leisure and devotion. The bonfire in the darkness is like a burning refusal of stillness, but one that soothes at the same time that it incites. Are the call to prayer and the cries of protest supporting...

.... Muslim devotional songs and popular Hindi film songs form an additional sonic layer to the footage. Working as sonotopes, they form an organizing center for space and sound, highlighting the inseparability of the auditory and spatial dimensions of experience. 64 We listen to the soundtrack...

...           the same document were frequently separated of this slave in an article titled “The Slave of MS. or fragmented. For three decades, S. D. Goitein H.6.”2 Friedman devotes eleven footnotes to cor...

...           the same document were frequently separated of this slave in an article titled “The Slave of MS. or fragmented. For three decades, S. D. Goitein H.6.”2 Friedman devotes eleven footnotes to cor...

...           the same document were frequently separated of this slave in an article titled “The Slave of MS. or fragmented. For three decades, S. D. Goitein H.6.”2 Friedman devotes eleven footnotes to cor...

...           the same document were frequently separated of this slave in an article titled “The Slave of MS. or fragmented. For three decades, S. D. Goitein H.6.”2 Friedman devotes eleven footnotes to cor...

...- the British, and Bengali theater as a result became ment is but lip service to the women, like Binodini a hybrid that articulated native identity but through Dasi, who actually appeared on stage, devoting their the lexicon of a colonial cultural...

...- the British, and Bengali theater as a result became ment is but lip service to the women, like Binodini a hybrid that articulated native identity but through Dasi, who actually appeared on stage, devoting their the lexicon of a colonial cultural...

...- the British, and Bengali theater as a result became ment is but lip service to the women, like Binodini a hybrid that articulated native identity but through Dasi, who actually appeared on stage, devoting their the lexicon of a colonial cultural...