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1 online resource (289 pages) |
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Cover; BOLLYWOOD: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; WHAT IS BOLLYWOOD?; STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION OF BOOK; ORIGINS AND GROWTH OF CINEMA IN INDIA: 1896-1947; THE INDIAN STATE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO CINEMA; HINDI FILMMAKING IN POST-INDEPENDENCE INDIA; 2 THE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF POPULAR HINDI CINEMA; STRUCTURE OF THE BOMBAY FILM INDUSTRY; THE PRODUCTION PROCESS; VISUAL STYLE; REMAKES AND ADAPTATIONS; THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FILM MUSIC |
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3 narrative style, important themes, and key conflictsnarrative style and structure; right/good vs. wrong/evil; law vs. justice; duty vs. desire; conclusions; 4 genre and hindi cinema; masala; ""lost and found"; reincarnation; 5 contemporary hindi filmmakers' reflections and perspectives; hindi cinema; bombay film industry; hindi cinema and society; significant films of popular hindi cinema; significant filmmakers of the hindi film industry; suggestions for further reading; notes; bibliography; index |
| Summary |
'Bollywood' is the dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995). Characterised by music, dance routines, melodrama, lavish production values and an emphasis on stars and spectacle, Bollywood films have met with box-office success and enthusiastic audiences from India to West Africa to Russia, and throughout the English-speaking world. In Bollywood, anthropologist and film scholar Tejaswini Ganti provides a guide to the cultural, social and political significance of Hindi cinema, outlining the history and str |
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Print version record |
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Motion picture industry -- India -- Mumbai.
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Motion pictures, Hindi -- India -- Mumbai
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Motion picture industry
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Motion pictures, Hindi
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India -- Mumbai
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136849305 |
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1136849300 |
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