Structure -- Love -- Song and dance -- Visual style -- Cinephilia -- Nationalism -- Gender and sexuality -- The future of Bollywood. "This book offers an introduction to popular Hindi cinema, a genre that has a massive fan base but is often misunderstood by critics, providing i…
This title surveys the music of seventy years of Hindi films and provides a long-term investigation of film songs and their musical and cinematic conventions. Focusing on the music of Hindi language films (i.e. Bollywood) in their historical, social, and commercial contexts, the…
India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexuality in Bombay cinema. She studies how film censorship on various levels makes th…
India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexuality in Bombay cinema. She studies how film censorship on various levels makes th…
Study of feature films in India, in particular, the Hindi film Sholay, directed by Ramesh Sippy.
Study of feature films in India, in particular, the Hindi film Sholay, directed by Ramesh Sippy.
This book charts out a new direction in scholarship on Indian cinema. It argues that with mainstream Hindi cinema becoming 'Bollywood' and the diaspora becoming a key commercial factor, the constituency addressed by the mainstream Hindi film has significantly changed. Consequent…
Bollywood Baddies is the first of its kind book-length narrative of villainy in Hindi films. It discusses villains, vamps and henchmen of Bollywood cinema and also the actors who essayed such characters over the decades. The author discusses not just villains but also the evalua…
