Popcorn Essayists
Jai Arjun Singh, "Popcorn Essayists"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 9380658354 | 228 pages | EPUB | 0.588 MB
English | 2011 | ISBN: 9380658354 | 228 pages | EPUB | 0.588 MB
A sparkling collection studded with wit, passion and insight, the essays are personal reflections on genres of cinema: Hollywood blockbusters, Hindi noir, horror and any other kind you may have sat through wide-eyed in a million small-town halls or metro multiplexes and the effect they had on individual lives. Ranging from the sparse, undemonstrative work of Finland s Kaurismäki brothers to a boisterous Punjabi masala movie that may or may not be about a foot fetish; from a writer s first and hilarious experience of watching a film in a theatre, to one who performs a Helen dance in drag at a Brooklyn square… each of these essays reveals to readers a completely different side of their authors. Edited by journalist, film and book critic Jai Arjun Singh, these recollections are what every movie-goer and book-lover-should read. Includes essays by: Rajorshi Chakraborti, Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Namita Gokhale, Anjum Hasan, Amitava Kumar, Madhulika Liddle, Jaishree Misra, Manjula Padmanabhan, Kamila Shamsie, Jai Arjun Singh, Manil Suri, Sumana Roy and Sidin Vadukut