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  • Bollywood

    Gods, Glamour, and Gossip

    de Kush Varia ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    While we have become familiar with the idea of "Bollywood" here in the West, we know little about the industry's films beyond a certain celebration of kitsch. Bollywood, the latest in Wallflower Press's Short Cuts introductory series, surveys this style of filmmaking from its origins in colonial times to the present, tracing its impact on both the Indian and global imagination. Chapters explore ... Leer más

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  • Tamil Cinema

    The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry

    Edición de Selvaraj Velayutham ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output. This book examines critically the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. It outlines its history and distinctive characteristics, and proceeds to consider a number of important ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Bollywood

    A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema

    Series series Routledge Film Guidebooks
    '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 ... Leer más

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  • The Beat Haiku

    de Kizen ...
    A study of the impact of the Beat Generation poets on the development of the haiku form, with a focus on the poetry of Ginsberg, Kerouac and Snyder. This ebook looks at the parallels that exist between the original haiku poets and modern western poets.It does this by exploring the nature of beat generation spirituality, and assessing the ways in which the original Japanese haiku has been altered. ... Leer más

    $3.00 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Indian Cinema

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    One film out of every five made anywhere on earth comes from India. From its beginnings under colonial rule through to the heights of Bollywood , Indian Cinema has challenged social injustices such as caste, the oppression of Indian women, religious intolerance, rural poverty, and the pressures of life in the burgeoning cities. And yet, the Indian movie industry makes only about five percent of ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Fire

    A Queer Film Classic

    de Shohini Ghosh ...
    Series series Queer Film Classics
    Shohini Ghosh: Shohini Ghosh is Professor at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, a university in New Delhi. Tales of the Night Fairies, her documentary on the sex workers rights movement, made a strong intervention in debates on sex work. She writes on contemporary media practices and sexuality. ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987

    Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
    Although Indian popular cinema has a long history and is familiar to audiences around the world, it has rarely been systematically studied. This book offers the first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood. The study focuses on the cinema’s characteristic forms, its range of meanings and pleasures, and, above all, its ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Wide Angle

    History of Indian Cinema

    Why does Indian Cinema look different, sound different and is so lengthy? Why are the dialogues so long winding? Why are our costumes so gaudy and garish? Why do we have so many songs in our films? Why do our actors burst into songs and dances for no reason? Are we a society that is exactly like our Cinema? Why are films directed by Saytyajit Ray great and not so great by some other Directors. ... Leer más

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  • Beyond Bollywood

    The Cinemas of South India

    While 'Indian popular cinema', as if by default, has come to mean Bollywood, there are other cinemas in India which are at least as rewarding to study, the largest and perhaps most intriguing among them coming from South India. Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada cinemas have their own colourful histories, megastars and political trajectories. This anthology is an attempt to do justice to the ... Leer más

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  • Jaane Bhee Do Yaaro

    In the 1980s, an unheralded Hindi movie, made on a budget of less than Rs 7 lakh, went from a quiet showing at the box office to developing a reputation as India's definitive black comedy. Some of the country's finest theatre and film talents - all at key stages in their careers - participated in its creation, but the journey was anything but smooth. Among other things, it involved bumping off ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Harper Cinema Omnibus

    Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro; Gangs of Wasseypur; Mother Maiden Mistress

    Series series HARPER 21
    Path-breaking films have phenomenal behind-the-scenes stories. Read about two of the most iconic movies of our times, and combine it with the journey of the woman, as actor and character, in Hindi cinema. Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro: In the 1980s, an unheralded Hindi movie, made on a budget of less than Rs 7 lakh, went from a quiet showing at the box office to developing a reputation as India's definitive ... Leer más

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  • A Place in My Heart

    A Place in My Heart is a many-splendored thing. It is a listicle. It is a celebration of the power of storytelling. It is also an account of a life lived in the Bollywood trenches. National Award-winning author, journalist and film critic Anupama Chopra writes about fifty films, artistes and events that have left an indelible impression on her and shaped her twenty-five-year-long career. Shah Rukh ... Leer más

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