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Indian popular cinema : a narrative of cultural change / K. Moti Gokulsing and Wimal Dissanayake.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gokulsing, K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--India.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture industry.
- History.
- India.
- Motion picture industry--India--History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 161 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- New revised edition.
- Other Title:
- Popular cinema
- Place of Publication:
- Stoke on Trent, UK ; Sterling [Va.] : Trentham Books, 2004.
- Summary:
- The book reviews nine decades of Indian popular cinema and examines its immense influence on people in India and its diaspora. Since it was published in 1998, Indian film has developed in new directions. As films today view with Indian soap operas for popularity, film making in India has acquired 'industry status' and consequently has greater accountability to its public.
- All this is reflected in this new and extensively revised edition of Indian Popular Cinema. It tracks the rise of 'designer cinema', reviews the increasingly significant Tamil cinema, and considers films made by Indians in the diaspora. K. Moti Gokulsing is Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East London. He is co-editor of the new journal, South Asian Popular Culture and author of Soft-soaping India: the world of Indian televised soap operas, published by Trentham.
- Professor Wimal Dissanayake is Adjunct Fellow at the East-West Centre, Hawaii and founding editor of the East-West Film Journal
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Beginnings 9
- Chapter 2 The Distinctiveness of Indian Popular Cinema 25
- Chapter 3 Cinema and Society in India 39
- Chapter 4 Religion, Ethnicity and Caste in Indian Cinema 55
- Chapter 5 Women in Indian Cinema 77
- Chapter 6 Styles and Techniques 95
- Chapter 7 The Changing Scene in Popular Cinema 109
- Chapter 8 Regional Cinemas of India 129
- Appendix NFDC Bombay 147.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-155) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1858563291
- OCLC:
- 55051573
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