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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Cinema cultures in contact ;
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.