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Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema

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Description for Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema Paperback. Bollywood has become the global term used to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry located in Bombay. Ganti provides a guide to the cultural, social & political significance of Hindi cinema, outlining the history & structure of the Bombay film industry & its impact on popular culture. Series: Routledge Film Guidebooks. Num Pages: 288 pages, 40 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; APF; JFD; KNTC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.

'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 structure of the Bombay film industry, and the development of popular Hindi filmmaking since the 1930s. Providing ... Read more

  • history of Indian cinema
  • narrative style, main themes, and key genres of Hindi cinema
  • significant films, directors and stars
  • production and distribution of Bollywood films
  • interviews with actors, directors and screenwriters.
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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Routledge Film Guidebooks
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415583886
SKU
V9780415583886
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Ref
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About Tejaswini Ganti
Tejaswini Ganti is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Program in Culture and Media at New York University.

Reviews for Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema
"Ganti’s book is by far one of the best introductions to Bollywood, a subject that reveals itself to possess many fine layers."
Devapriya Sanyal, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Goodreads reviews for Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema


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