Bollywood's India : a public fantasy /
Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its films contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and fabricate public fantasies of what constitutes 'India'. Written by an award-winning scholar of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: The social work of cinema
- Bollywood's India
- Making India
- Remaking India I
- Remaking India II
- Unmaking "India"
- Cinema as public fantasy "two dynasties that rule the nation's popular imagination"
- Police and thieves
- Career opportunities
- Cinema as family romance
- Film, family, and family romance
- Deewaar, the manifest narrative
- "India is Indira"
- Bollywood, Bollylite
- The world according to Bollywood
- The world according to Hollywood
- Bollylite in America
- Epilogue: Anthem for a new India.