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A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema
Routledge
September 2004
On Sale: August 24, 2004
224 pages ISBN: 0415288541 EAN: 9780415288545 Paperback
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"Bollywood" - once a tongue-in-cheek term used by the
English-language media in India - has become the dominant
global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film
industry located in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995).
Characterized 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 Bombay 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 its impact on
global popular culture. Providing information and commentary
on the key players in Bollywood, from composers to directors
and stars, as well as material from current filmmakers
themselves, areas covered in Bollywood
include:
*Chronology Main Themes in Hindi
Cinema *Key Characteristics of Popular Hindi
Cinema *Significant Filmmakers *Significant
Films *Scholarship about Hindi Cinema *Filmmakers
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