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Censorship and sexuality in Bombay cinema /

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 the female body and fem...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mehta, Monika, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2011.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Beginning
  • Revisiting the history of film censorship
  • Close-up: the Central Board of Film Certification
  • The first sex-education film: a classification conundrum
  • Satyam shivam sundaram: (im)proper suturing of sound, scar, and stardom
  • An anomalous dilemma: to ban or to certify the self-sacrificial wife in Pati parmeshwar
  • Tracking the twists and turns in the Khalnayak
  • Debates on censorship
  • Dilwale dulhania le jayenge: certifying a "family love" story
  • From censorship to selections.