Interpreting Cinema : A Retrospect and an Analysis ........1 Travelling Memories: Between Word and Image ......16 Theatre into Film : Adaptations and Cultural Formations .....32 Birthing te New Intertextuality, Grafting, Reclycling .........42 Refractions or or Parallel Narrative...........54 Histories of Violence : Little Narratives Countering ........65 Art and Power Dynamics : Mirza Ghalib and Shatranj Ke Khilari ........75 Constructing the Nation Through the Semiotics of Difference......86 Deepa Mehta`s Elements Trilogy ......100 Body as text : Women Transgressors and Hindi Cinema .........119 Body as Text : Women Transgressors and Hindi Cinema .....119 Reclaiming the Body : The Gender of Creativity .........143 Urbascapes, shifting Cultures and the Film Narrative ......157 Fathers and Daughters .......179 Surrealism in an Anonymous City .....195 Value as Integrator in Modernity .......205 Exteriorising the Self .........215