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Sirens of modernity : world cinema via Bombay /

"By the 1960s, Hindi-language films from Bombay were in high demand not only for domestic and diasporic audiences but also for sizeable non-diasporic audiences across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian Ocean world. Often confounding critics who painted the song-dance...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sunya, Samhita, 1985- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Colección:Cinema cultures in contact ; 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Opening Credits "Akira Kurosawa" : a retrospective prologue
  • Introduction : "Romance, comedy, and somewhat jazzy music"
  • Problems of translation : world cinema as distribution history
  • moving toward the "City of love": Hindustani lyrical genealogies
  • Homosocialist co-productions : Pardesi (1957) contra Singapore (1960)
  • Comedic crossovers and Madras money-spinners : Padosan's (1968) audiovisual apparatus
  • Foreign Exchanges : transregional trafficking through Subah-O-Sham (1972)
  • Special features.