Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema (Routledge Film Guidebooks)
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (818 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415583888 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Providing information and commentary on the key players in Bollywood, including directors and stars, as well as material from current filmmakers themselves, the areas covered in Bollywood include:history of Indian cinemanarrative 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.. '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
Tejaswini Ganti is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Program in Culture and Media at New York University.
. About the AuthorTejaswini Ganti is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Program in Culture and Media at New York University
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