[Commlist] New Book: Madhuri Dixit

new monograph, part of the British Film Institute's /Film Stars /Series, 
edited by Martin Shinger and Susan Smith
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*MADHURI DIXIT*

Nandana Bose

A wide-ranging account of the Indian film star Madhuri Dixit, one of the 
most popular actresses of Hindi cinema. Nandana Bose's study traces 
Dixit's twenty-five year career, exploring her star persona, her 
indelible impact on Indian popular culture, and her continuing 
popularity even in middle age. Nandana Bose discusses Dixit's unusual 
and distinctive career trajectory that upends pre-existing models of 
female stardom, by marrying at the peak of her career, withdrawing from 
the limelight for years, and then returning to extend her career into 
her early fifties by reinventing herself as a transmedia celebrity for a 
new generation. However, it is her unique talent as a dancer, and her 
innovative choreographic styles and repertoire of movements that make 
her standout from other Hindi film stars. Surveying Dixit's film-making 
career, Bose argues that she represents a wholesome and traditional 
figure of femininity that has resonated across class and cultural 
hierarchies at a time of great economic and social change in India.

*Reviews*

"Like most enduring media celebrities, Madhuri dramatizes the essential 
contradictions of stardom. Nandana Bose has captured these complexities 
for us in a fascinating story of technology, sexuality, and performance. 
She shows how, even as the fortunes of a rapidly transforming Hindi 
cinema dim and flare, Madhuri's superstar incandescence continues to 
burn brightly. A real treat for scholars and fans alike." -- Nitin 
Govil, Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of 
Southern California, USA.

"In this scintillating study of Hindi cinema's first female superstar, 
Nandana Bose examines Dixit's phenomenal success in relation to the 
dramatic transformation of India's mediascape during the 1990s, and 
reminds us of the collaborative labour required to manufacture an icon." 
--  Michael Lawrence, University of Sussex, UK.

"Bose expertly traces Dixit's career trajectory from her arrival in the 
Hindi film industry as an ordinary young middle-class outsider to her 
rise as an idealized and idolized dancer-actress extraordinaire, and 
from Dixit's surprise withdrawal from films after marriage to her later 
return as a television and transmedia star. In doing so, Bose gives 
readers an unparalleled insight into the lived experiences of a female 
superstar; a part of film culture that is woefully understudied in 
Indian cinema studies." -- Shanti Kumar, Associate Professor, Department 
of Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas at Austin, USA.


*About the author*

Dr. Nandana Bose is Associate Professor in the School of Communications 
at the Foundation for Liberal Arts and Management Education (FLAME) in 
Pune, India. She was Associate Professor at the Department of Film 
Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), USA. She 
has been published in such journals as /Cinema Journal/, /Celebrity 
Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Velvet Light Trap, and Studies in South 
Asian Film and Media/, and anthologies such as /Figurations in Indian 
Film/ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), /Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship 
Around the World/ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and /Behind the Scenes: 
Contemporary Bollywood Directors and their Cinema/ (Sage, 2017).


*Purchase details:* 
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/madhuri-dixit-9781844576296/
PDF e-book: UK  £14.68; Pbk: UK  £15.29
ISBN	1911239155, 9781911239154

176 pages, 30 b/w illus

This book is published in the British Film Institute (BFI) /Film Stars 
/Series: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/film-stars/
Bloomsbury/BFI Film & Media titles: 
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/academic/academic-subjects/film-and-media/british-film-institute/ 



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