Joshi Bollywood's India

A Public Fantasy
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53907-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Analyzes the role of the cinema’s most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern India

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joshi, Priya

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
Preface: The Social Work of Cinema
1. Bollywood's India
2. Cinema as Public Fantasy
3. Cinema as Family Romance
4. Bollywood, Bollylite
Epilogue: Anthem for a New India
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

Leseproben

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Über Autor(innen)

Priya Joshi is associate professor of English at Temple University. She is the author of In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India, winner of the Modern Language Association's Prize for the Best First Book, the Sonya Rudikoff Prize for best first book in Victorian studies by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association, and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award. She is coeditor of The 1970s and Its Legacies in India's Cinemas.