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Bombay Before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies Hardcover – December 4, 2013 by Rosie Thomas (Author) This book offers a fresh, alternative look at the history of Bombay cinema.
Eschewing the conventional focus on India's social and mythological films, it foregrounds the subaltern genres of fantasy, costume and stunt films popular in the B- and C-circuits in the decades before and immediately after independence. It explores the influence of this 'other' cinema on the big-budget masala films of the 1970s and 1980s, before 'Bollywood' erupted onto the world stage in the mid-1990s. The book reminds us that a significant stream of Bombay cinema has always revelled in cultural hybridity, engaging with global popular culture and transcultural flows of cosmopolitan modernity and postmodernity.
About the Author
Rosie Thomas is Professor of Film, Faculty of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, UK.
About the Author
Rosie Thomas is Professor of Film, Faculty of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, UK.
Product details
Publisher : Orient Blackswan (December 4, 2013)
Language : English
Hardcover : 344 pages
ISBN-10 : 812505362X
ISBN-13 : 978-8125053620
Item Weight : 1.19 pounds
Dimensions : 7.99 x 10 x 1.85 inches
Publisher : Orient Blackswan (December 4, 2013)
Language : English
Hardcover : 344 pages
ISBN-10 : 812505362X
ISBN-13 : 978-8125053620
Item Weight : 1.19 pounds
Dimensions : 7.99 x 10 x 1.85 inches
This item is FINAL SALE NO EXCHANGE NO REFUND ALL SALES ARE FINAL. Sale items cannot be returned or exchanged. Additional discounts including member discounts do not apply to sale items.
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Bombay Before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies Hardcover – December 4, 2013 by Rosie Thomas (Author) This book offers a fresh, alternative look at the history of Bombay cinema.
Eschewing the conventional focus on India's social and mythological films, it foregrounds the subaltern genres of fantasy, costume and stunt films popular in the B- and C-circuits in the decades before and immediately after independence. It explores the influence of this 'other' cinema on the big-budget masala films of the 1970s and 1980s, before 'Bollywood' erupted onto the world stage in the mid-1990s. The book reminds us that a significant stream of Bombay cinema has always revelled in cultural hybridity, engaging with global popular culture and transcultural flows of cosmopolitan modernity and postmodernity.
About the Author
Rosie Thomas is Professor of Film, Faculty of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, UK.
About the Author
Rosie Thomas is Professor of Film, Faculty of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, UK.
Product details
Publisher : Orient Blackswan (December 4, 2013)
Language : English
Hardcover : 344 pages
ISBN-10 : 812505362X
ISBN-13 : 978-8125053620
Item Weight : 1.19 pounds
Dimensions : 7.99 x 10 x 1.85 inches
Publisher : Orient Blackswan (December 4, 2013)
Language : English
Hardcover : 344 pages
ISBN-10 : 812505362X
ISBN-13 : 978-8125053620
Item Weight : 1.19 pounds
Dimensions : 7.99 x 10 x 1.85 inches
This item is FINAL SALE NO EXCHANGE NO REFUND ALL SALES ARE FINAL. Sale items cannot be returned or exchanged. Additional discounts including member discounts do not apply to sale items.
