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Bombay cinema : an archive of the city / Ranjani Mazumdar.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007Description: xxxvii, 257 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780816649419 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 0816649413 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780816649426 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 0816649421 (pb : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430954792 MAZ 23 023405
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.I8 M39 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : Urban allegories -- Rage on screen -- The rebellious Tapori -- Desiring women -- The panoramic interior -- Gangland Bombay -- Conclusion : After life.
Summary: Cinema is not only a major industry in India, it is a powerful cultural force. In Bombay Cinema, Ranjani Mazumdar takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding Bombay cinema as the unofficial archive of the city in India. In this analysis, Mazumdar reveals a complex postnationalist world, convulsed by the social crisis of the 1970s and transformed by the experience of globalization in the 1990s.
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 791.430954792 MAZ 023405 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Course Reserve 023405

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-244) and index.

Introduction : Urban allegories -- Rage on screen -- The rebellious Tapori -- Desiring women -- The panoramic interior -- Gangland Bombay -- Conclusion : After life.

Cinema is not only a major industry in India, it is a powerful cultural force. In Bombay Cinema, Ranjani Mazumdar takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding Bombay cinema as the unofficial archive of the city in India. In this analysis, Mazumdar reveals a complex postnationalist world, convulsed by the social crisis of the 1970s and transformed by the experience of globalization in the 1990s.

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