Thomas Bombay before Bollywood

Film City Fantasies
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5677-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Traces the development of Indian cinema from the 1920s to the mid-1990s, before "Bollywood" erupted onto the world stage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomas, Rosie

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures
Credits
Acknowledgments

1. Bombay before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies

Part One

Introduction to Part One

2. Thieves of the Orient: The Arabian Nights in Early Indian Cinema

3. Distant Voices, Magic Knives: Lal-e-Yaman and the Transition to Sound in Bombay Cinema

4. Not Quite (Pearl) White: Fearless Nadia, Queen of the Stunts

5. Zimbo and Son Meet the Girl with a Gun

6. Still Magic: An Aladdin’s Cave of 1950s B-Movie Fantasy

Part Two

Introduction to Part Two

7. Where the Money Flows, the Camera Rolls

8. Indian Cinema: Pleasures and Popularity

9. Sanctity and Scandal: The Mythologisation of Mother India

10. Mother India Maligned: The Saga of Sanjay Dutt

References and Select Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

At the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom,Rosie Thomas is Professor of Film, Faculty of Media, Arts, and Design, Director of the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, and Co-Director of the India Media Centre.