Vers une poétique de la narration : films populaires et romance au cinéma bollywoodien des années 1990
In this dissertation, we study Bollywood productions from the prolific Mumbai film industry. We explore this popular cinema’s form and the new trend that appears in the 1990s, through which representations related to the new Indian middle-class are developed.  In this study, we interrogate the most successful films of the 1990s in order to understand how they deploy their narratives and their storytelling. Proceeding to descriptive and poetical analysis of their narratives, this study is mainly concerned with the treatment of romance, a major theme of this decade. Through this theme, we analyze narrative patterns, stylistic processes, obliquely expressed feelings and the dynamics of the private, public and family spheres. Essentially, we illustrate how the distribution of narrative information situates the spectator in a privileged position organizing the pleasures of his participation in Bollywood movies.
Bollywood Mumbai Bollywood Storytelling Romance Popular cinema Stylistic processes Narrative patterns Poetics Spectator's point of view Middle class Mumbai India