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Sirens of Modernity : World Cinema via Bombay /

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. By the 1960s, Hindi-language films from Bombay were in high demand not only for domestic and diasporic audiences but also for sizable non-diasporic audiences across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sunya, Samhita (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2022]
Colección:Cinema Cultures in Contact ; 3
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • "Akira Kurosawa" A Retrospective Prologue
  • Introduction "Romance, Comedy, and Somewhat Jazzy Music"
  • Part One. Establishing Shots: World Cinema in Tongues
  • 1. Problems of Translation: World Cinema as Distribution History
  • 2. Moving toward the "City of Love": Hindustani Lyrical Genealogies
  • Part Two. Star-Crossed Overtures: Cinephilia in Excess
  • 3. Homosocialist Coproductions: Pardesi (1957) contra Singapore (1960)
  • 4. Comedic Crossovers and Madras Money-Spinners: Padosan's (1968) Audiovisual Apparatus
  • 5. Foreign Exchanges: Transregional Trafficking through Subah-O-Sham (1972)
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index