Auteurship and the Lure of Romance
Abstract
Vijay Mishra tries to interpret the work of two auteurs of Bombay classic cinema, Raj Kapoor and Guru Dutt, in the context of the theory of film author, identification and psychoanalytical categories. Making references to such film theoreticians as Andrew Sarris, Peter Wollen, Christian Metz and Laura Mulvey, Mishra tries to discover hidden meanings behind the manifest content of the films of the two artists. He suggests that the recognizable style of Kapoor consists in a fairly literal manipulation of the viewer as a voyeur, while that of Guru Dutt – in the self-conscious aestheticization of Bombay romance. In his analysis Mishra cites movies of the so-called classic period from Kapoor’s Aag (1948) to Jagte Raho (1956), and Dutt’s Pyaasa (1957), Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962).
- The text is a translation of the chapter from the book Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire by Vijay Mishra, Routledge, New York 2002. © 2002 by Routledge.
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Raj Kapoor, Guru Dutt, Bombay classic cinema, auteurshipReferences
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Vijay Mishrakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Murdoch University Australia
Wykładowca na Murdoch University w Perth w Australii. Autor książek The Gothic Sublime (1994) i Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire (2002).
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