Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema

a new book by Sangita Gopal

Sangita Gopal is an associate professor of English at the University of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate. Her research was supported in part by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant. An interview with Dr. Gopal—Studying Bollywood: Globalization, Isolation, Couples, and Changing Gender Roles—appeared in the 2011 CSWS Annual Review.

Conjugations is now available from The University of Chicago Press.

From The University of Chicago Press website:

“Informed by Gopal’s incredible warehouse of knowledge about popular Indian cinemas, Conjugations illuminates diverse dimensions of conjugality and Bollywood through multiple lines of inquiry, including attention to song-and-dance sequences, the emergence of the new genre of horror, and the revitalization of Bengali cinema. This dazzling and wide-reaching book will be of interest to scholars not only in cinema studies, but more generally, those interested in postcoloniality, feminism and gender, and the nation-state in South Asia.”—Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota