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Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema

Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema Paperback / softback - 2013 - 2nd Edition

by Tejaswini Ganti

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Paperback / softback. New. 'Bollywood' is the dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995). Characterised by music, dance routines, melodrama, lavish production values and an emphasis on stars and spectacle, Bollywood films have met with box-office success and enthusiastic audiences from India to West Africa to Russia, and throughout the English-speaking world. In Bollywood, anthropologist and film scholar Tejaswini Ganti provides a guide to the cultural, social and political significance of Hindi cinema, outlining the history and structure of the Bombay film industry, and the development of popular Hindi filmmaking since the 1930s. Providing information and commentary on the key players in Bollywood, including directors and stars, as well as material from current filmmakers themselves, the areas covered in Bollywood include: history of Indian cinema narrative style, main themes, and key genres of Hindi cinema significant films, directors and stars production and distribution of Bollywood films interviews with actors, directors and screenwriters.
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  • Title Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema
  • Author Tejaswini Ganti
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Condition New
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2013-02-13
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780415583886
  • ISBN 9780415583886 / 0415583888
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.6 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion picture industry - India - Bombay, Motion pictures, Hindi - India - Bombay
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012032391
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

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From the publisher

In Bollywood, anthropologist and film scholar Tejaswini Ganti provides a guide to the cultural, social and political significance of Hindi cinema, outlining the history and structure of the Bombay film industry, and the development of popular Hindi filmmaking since the 1930s. Providing information and commentary on the key players in Bollywood, including directors and stars, as well as material from current filmmakers themselves, the areas covered in Bollywood include:

  • history of Indian cinema
  • narrative style, main themes, and key genres of Hindi cinema
  • significant films, directors and stars
  • production and distribution of Bollywood films
  • interviews with actors, directors and screenwriters.

About the author

Tejaswini Ganti is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Program in Culture and Media at New York University.