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Censorship and sexuality in Bombay cinema / Monika Mehta.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mehta, Monika, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Censorship--India--Bombay.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--India--Bombay--History--20th century.
- Sex in motion pictures.
- Sex role in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages.Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexuality in Bombay cinema.
- Contents:
- Beginning
- Revisiting the history of film censorship
- Close-up: the Central Board of Film Certification
- The first sex-education film: a classification conundrum
- Satyam shivam sundaram: (im)proper suturing of sound, scar, and stardom
- An anomalous dilemma: to ban or to certify the self-sacrificial wife in Pati parmeshwar
- Tracking the twists and turns in the Khalnayak
- Debates on censorship
- Dilwale dulhania le jayenge: certifying a "family love" story
- From censorship to selections.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Minnesota, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-292-73785-8
- OCLC:
- 774026846
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