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Bollywood's India: A Public Fantasy / Priya Joshi.

By: Joshi, Priya [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2015Description: xix,191p. ; 24cm.ISBN: 9780231169615 (pbk.).Subject(s): Motion pictures -- IndiaDDC classification: 791.430954 Online resources: Publisher's Description and Content Page
Contents:
Acknowledgments Preface: The Social Work of Cinema 1. Bollywood's India 2. Cinema as Public Fantasy 3. Cinema as Family Romance 4. Bollywood, Bollylite Epilogue: Anthem for a New India Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
Summary: Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and fabricate public fantasies of what constitutes "India." Written by an award-winning scholar of popular culture and postcolonial modernity, Bollywood's India analyzes the role of the cinema's most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern India. With dazzling interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi provides an interdisciplinary account of popular cinema as a space that filters politics and modernity for its viewers. Themes such as crime and punishment, family and individuality, vigilante and community capture the diffuse aspirations of an evolving nation. Summoning India's tumultuous 1970s as an interpretive lens, Joshi reveals the cinema's social work across decades that saw the decline of studios, the rise of the multi-starrer genre, and the arrival of corporate capital and new media platforms. In elegantly crafted studies of iconic and less familiar films, including Awara (1951), Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957), Deewaar (1975), Sholay (1975), Dil Se (1998), A Wednesday (2008), and 3 Idiots (2009), Joshi powerfully conveys the pleasures and politics of Bollywood blockbusters. Taken from the publisher's Site.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Acknowledgments
Preface: The Social Work of Cinema
1. Bollywood's India
2. Cinema as Public Fantasy
3. Cinema as Family Romance
4. Bollywood, Bollylite
Epilogue: Anthem for a New India
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and fabricate public fantasies of what constitutes "India." Written by an award-winning scholar of popular culture and postcolonial modernity, Bollywood's India analyzes the role of the cinema's most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern India.

With dazzling interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi provides an interdisciplinary account of popular cinema as a space that filters politics and modernity for its viewers. Themes such as crime and punishment, family and individuality, vigilante and community capture the diffuse aspirations of an evolving nation. Summoning India's tumultuous 1970s as an interpretive lens, Joshi reveals the cinema's social work across decades that saw the decline of studios, the rise of the multi-starrer genre, and the arrival of corporate capital and new media platforms. In elegantly crafted studies of iconic and less familiar films, including Awara (1951), Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957), Deewaar (1975), Sholay (1975), Dil Se (1998), A Wednesday (2008), and 3 Idiots (2009), Joshi powerfully conveys the pleasures and politics of Bollywood blockbusters. Taken from the publisher's Site.

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