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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Joshi, Priya (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Motion pictures > India > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
Cinéma > Inde > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Cinéma > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Motion pictures.
India > In motion pictures.
India.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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