Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! : Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s /

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Charting the rise of the film star in early Indian cinema, this volume covers from the silent era through the first decade after Indian independence, combining readings of specific films & stars with analysis of the historical & cultural configurations that gave rise to distinctly Indian not...

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Autor principal: Majumdar, Neepa, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Film.
Women in motion pictures.
Actresses > India > Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses > India > Biography.
Motion pictures > India > History.
Filmschauspielerin
Motion pictures.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Actresses.
Femmes au cinema.
Actrices > Inde > Biographies.
Cinema > Inde > Histoire.
Indien
India.
History.
Biographies.
Biography.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Translocating : Hollywood stardom in India
  • The split discourse of Indian stardom
  • The morality and machinery of stardom
  • Real and imagined stars
  • Spectatorial desires and the hierarchies of stardom
  • Monopoly, frontality, and doubling in postwar Bombay cinema
  • Nargis and the double space of female desire in Anhonee
  • The embodied voice : song sequences and stardom in Bombay cinema.

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