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Bollywood : a Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema

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'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,  Read more...

Author(s): Tejaswini Ganti
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Year: 2013

Language: English
Pages: 289
City: Hoboken, India--Mumbai.
Tags: Motion picture industry -- India -- Mumbai;Motion pictures, Hindi -- India -- Mumbai;ART -- Film & Video;PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference;Motion picture industry;Motion pictures, Hindi;India -- Mumbai

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BOLLYWOOD: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema
Copyright
CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1 INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS BOLLYWOOD?
STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION OF BOOK
ORIGINS AND GROWTH OF CINEMA IN INDIA: 1896-1947
THE INDIAN STATE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO CINEMA
HINDI FILMMAKING IN POST-INDEPENDENCE INDIA
2 THE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF POPULAR HINDI CINEMA
STRUCTURE OF THE BOMBAY FILM INDUSTRY
THE PRODUCTION PROCESS
VISUAL STYLE
REMAKES AND ADAPTATIONS
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FILM MUSIC. 3 narrative style, important themes, and key conflictsnarrative style and structure
right/good vs. wrong/evil
law vs. justice
duty vs. desire
conclusions
4 genre and hindi cinema
masala
""lost and found"
reincarnation
5 contemporary hindi filmmakers' reflections and perspectives
hindi cinema
bombay film industry
hindi cinema and society
significant films of popular hindi cinema
significant filmmakers of the hindi film industry
suggestions for further reading
notes
bibliography
index.