| Description |
xxiv, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Chapter One INVENTING BOMBAY CINEMA 1 -- Chapter Two MELODRAMATIC STAGING 35 -- Chapter Three THE TEXTS OF "MOTHER INDIA" 61 -- Chapter Four AUTEURSHIP AND THE LURE OF ROMANCE 89 -- Chapter Five THE ACTOR AS PARALLEL TEXT: AMITABH BACHCHAN 125 -- Chapter Six SEGMENTING/ANALYZING TWO FOUNDATIONAL TEXTS 157 -- Chapter Seven AFTER AYODHYA: THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF FUNDAMENTALISM 203 -- Chapter Eight BOMBAY CINEMA AND DIASPORIC DESIRE 235 |
| Summary |
India is home to Bollywood--and to the largest film industry in the world. Movie theaters are said to be the "temples of modern India," with Bombay/Mumbai, the center of Bollywood, producing some 200 of the 800 films per year that are viewed by roughly 11 million people per day. In Bollywood Cinema, Vijay Mishra argues that Indian film production and reception is shaped by the desire for national community and a pan-Indian popular culture. Seeking to understand Bollywood according to its own narrative and aesthetic principles and in relation to a global film industry, he views Indian cinema through the dual methodologies of postcolonial studies and film theory. Mishra discusses classics such as Mother India (1957) and Devdsa (1935) and recent films including Ram Lakhan (1989) and Khalnayak (1993), linking their form and content to broader issues of national identity, epic tradition, popular culture, history, and the implications of diaspora. Persuasively arguing for the centrality of movie-going in the construction of self and community, Bollywood Cinema is an indispensable guide to Indian cinema for both scholars and fans alike |
| Analysis |
INDIA |
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BACHCHAN, AMITABH |
| Notes |
Filmography: p. 271-276 |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- India -- History.
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Motion pictures -- India -- Mumbai.
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Motion picture plays -- History and criticism.
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Actors -- Interviews.
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Acting.
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Motion pictures -- India.
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| Author |
Luckhurst, Mary.
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Veltman, Chloe.
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| LC no. |
2001019672 |
| ISBN |
0415930154 paperback |
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0415930146 cased |
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