| Description |
1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface: The social work of cinema -- Bollywood's India -- Making India -- Remaking India I -- Remaking India II -- Unmaking "India" -- Cinema as public fantasy "two dynasties that rule the nation's popular imagination" -- Police and thieves -- Career opportunities -- Cinema as family romance -- Film, family, and family romance -- Deewaar, the manifest narrative -- "India is Indira" -- Bollywood, Bollylite -- The world according to Bollywood -- The world according to Hollywood -- Bollylite in America -- Epilogue: Anthem for a new India. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary |
Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its films contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and fabricate public fantasies of what constitutes 'India'. Written by an award-winning scholar of popular culture and postcolonial modernity, this work analyses the role of Bollywood's most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern India. |
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India -- In motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- India -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01027285
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India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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PERFORMING ARTS / Reference.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Joshi, Priya. Bollywood's India. New York : Columbia University Press, [2015] 9780231169608 (DLC) 2014042100 (OCoLC)896806631 |
| ISBN |
023153907X (electronic bk.) |
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9780231539074 (electronic bk.) |
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