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Bollywood´s India: A Public Fantasy
Priya Joshi
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Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 45 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FKA; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 237 x 15. Weight in Grams: 398.
Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters 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, Bollywood's India analyzes the role of the cinema's most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern India. With dazzling interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi provides an interdisciplinary account of popular cinema as a space that filters politics and modernity for its viewers. Themes such as crime and punishment, family and individuality, vigilante and community capture ... Read more
Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters 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, Bollywood's India analyzes the role of the cinema's most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern India. With dazzling interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi provides an interdisciplinary account of popular cinema as a space that filters politics and modernity for its viewers. Themes such as crime and punishment, family and individuality, vigilante and community capture ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231169608
SKU
V9780231169608
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About Priya Joshi
Priya Joshi is associate professor of English at Temple University. She is the author of In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India, winner of the Modern Language Association's Prize for the Best First Book, the Sonya Rudikoff Prize for best first book in Victorian studies by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association, and a Choice Outstanding Academic ... Read more
Reviews for Bollywood´s India: A Public Fantasy
Priya Joshi's work is a timely assessment of key films and periods in Bollywood's history. Its wide-ranging literary, theoretical, and sociocultural perspectives, which cut across literature, postcolonial studies, media, and cultural studies, will surely be taken up by other scholars as well as general readers. A fine piece of scholarship.
Rajinder Dudrah, University of Manchester Lavishly illustrated... this volume ... Read more
Rajinder Dudrah, University of Manchester Lavishly illustrated... this volume ... Read more