The Bollywood reader
by Desai, Jigna Dudrah, Rajinder Kumar
This reader provides a road map of the scholarship on modern Hindi cinema in India. Its emphasis is on understanding the interplay between cinema and colonialism, nationalism, and globalization.
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- Full title :The Bollywood reader / edited by Rajinder Dudrah and Jigna Desai.
Summary
This reader provides a road map of the scholarship on modern Hindi cinema in India. Its emphasis is on understanding the interplay between cinema and colonialism, nationalism, and globalization.
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- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):McGraw-Hill, Open University Press
- Place of Publication:Maidenhead, Berkshire, England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 301 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780335222131, 0335222137, 9780335222124, 0335222129
- oclc:ocn258105126
- LC Classification:PN1993.5.I8
- Dewey Decimal:302.23430954
Table of Contents
The essential Bollywood / Jigna Desai and Rajinder Dudrah. PART 1: Theoretical frameworks -- Indian cinema: pleasures and popularity / Rosie Thomas -- Towards a theoretical critique of Bombay cinema / Vijay Mishra -- The economics of ideology: popular film form and mode of production / Madhava Prasad -- In the throes of change: exhibition, production and distribution / Manjunath Pendakur -- Introduction: Indian popular cinema as a slums eye view of politics / Ashis Nandy -- The national-heroic image: masculinity and masquerade / Sumita Chakravarty. PART 2: Recent trajectories -- Avenging women in Indian cinema / Lalitha Gopalan -- Figuring Mother India: the case of Nargis / Parama Roy -- What is behind film censorship? The Khalnayak debates / Monika Mehta -- The home and the nation: consuming culture and politics in Roja / Nicholas B. Dirks -- Inside and out: song and dance in Bollywood cinema / Sangita Gopal and Biswarup Sen -- Invisible representation: the oral contours of a national popular cinema / Sheila J. Nayar -- Imagining the family: an ethnography of viewing Hum Aapke Hain Koun / Patricia Uberoi. PART 3: Bollywood abroad and beyond -- The "Bollywoodization" of the Indian…
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