Disco flamboyance, performative masculinities and dancer heroes of Bengali cinema

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S. Bhattacharya
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ABSTRACT In this paper, I attempt to study the different determinants of cinematic masculinities, the gendered bodies of male performer figures and their changing patterns with reference to film dance from the 1980s-1990s period of Bengali popular cinema. This paper explores how the inclusion of performative male bodies in the dance numbers brought a distinct imagination of masculinity and flamboyance, thereby disrupting the established idea of the bhadra (the polished and gentle class of Bengal) hero of Bengali cinema. In the first section of my article, I focus on how the disco sensation and its cinematic registers took a new form with Mithun Chakraborty’s figuration in Bengali film dances. The second section studies how this pattern of dancing male bodies and its flamboyance changed in the later period when the imagination of a working class male protagonist intervened in film dance in the 1990s. In brief, I try to read the shifting imaginations of masculinities in Bengali film dance from the disco flamboyance and ‘global-national-popular model’ of Mithun Chakraborty’s star persona in the 1980s to the more localized and hybrid form of dance idioms in Prosenjit’s iconic film roles in a later period.
迪斯科的华丽、表演的男子气概和孟加拉电影中的舞蹈英雄
摘要本文试图结合20世纪80年代至90年代孟加拉流行电影的电影舞蹈,研究电影男性气质的不同决定因素、男性演员形象的性别化身体及其变化模式。本文探讨了在舞蹈数字中加入表演性男性身体是如何带来对男子气概和华丽的独特想象的,从而打破了孟加拉电影中对孟加拉(优雅温和的孟加拉阶层)英雄的既定观念。在我文章的第一节中,我重点讨论了迪斯科的轰动效应及其电影记录是如何随着Mithun Chakraborty在孟加拉语电影舞蹈中的形象而呈现出一种新的形式的。第二部分研究了在20世纪90年代,当一个工人阶级男性主人公的想象力介入电影舞蹈时,这种男性身体的舞蹈模式及其华丽是如何在后期发生变化的。简言之,我试图解读孟加拉语电影舞蹈中男性气质的转变,从20世纪80年代米通·查克拉博蒂的明星形象的迪斯科华丽和“全球流行模式”,到后期普罗森吉特标志性电影角色中舞蹈习语的更本地化和混合形式。
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