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1 online resource |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- India -- History -- 20th century
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Motion pictures
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| SUBJECT |
India -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064958
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| Subject |
India
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
023153907X |
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9780231539074 |
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