Bollywood's India: A Public Fantasy

Priya Joshi

Published by Columbia University Press 2015

Bollywood's India

A Public Fantasy

Priya Joshi

https://doi.org/10.7312/josh16960

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Analyzes the role of the cinema’s most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern India

Author / Editor information

Priya Joshi is associate professor of English at Temple University. She is the author of In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India, winner of the Modern Language Association's Prize for the Best First Book, the Sonya Rudikoff Prize for best first book in Victorian studies by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association, and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award. She is coeditor of The 1970s and Its Legacies in India's Cinemas.

Reviews

Well-structured.... Joshi's book perfectly captures the history of Bollywood cinema and its cultural impact for the newcomer and seasoned viewer alike.

Steven Rea:
A lively, thoughtful writer, Joshi shows how Bollywood films have mirrored India's social, political and economic changes, and how western films have been influenced by Bollywood trends and motifs.

Lavishly illustrated... this volume would be an excellent course text for a semester on Bollywood.... Highly recommended.

Rajinder Dudrah, University of Manchester:
Priya Joshi's work is a timely assessment of key films and periods in Bollywood's history. Its wide-ranging literary, theoretical, and sociocultural perspectives, which cut across literature, postcolonial studies, media, and cultural studies, will surely be taken up by other scholars as well as general readers. A fine piece of scholarship.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of Illustrations and Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Preface. The Social Work Of Cinema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
1. Bollywood’s India Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Cinema as Public Fantasy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3. Cinema as Family Romance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
4. Bollywood, Bollylite Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Epilogue: Anthem for a New India Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Filmography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 45
- Other: <B>45 b&w photographs</B>

eBook

Published: March 3, 2015
ISBN: 9780231539074