Bombay before Bollywood by Rosie Thomas
. She includes a detailed ethnographic account of the Bombay film industry of the early 1980s, centering on the beliefs and fantasies of filmmakers themselves with regard to filmmaking and film audiences, and on-the-ground operations of the industry. A welcome addition to the fields of film studies and cultural studies, the book will also appeal to general readers with an interest in Indian cinema.-
Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination
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Hitchcock at the Source
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Hitchcock and Hospitality
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Brief Encounters
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Wastelands and Wonderlands
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From Doors to Screens
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The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema
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Language Without Borders
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Overhearing Film Music
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On Shoreless Sea
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Haunting the World
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Celluloid Babel
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Happiness and Tears, After Cavell
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Cavell on Film
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Eccentric Laughter
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Déjà Viewed
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Plastic Time
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Visions in the Frame
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The Celluloid Atlantic
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Torturous Etiquettes
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The Slapstick Camera
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Action, Action, Action
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Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East
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Seeing Symphonically
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Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives
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Writ on Water
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Curtains of Light
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Was It Yesterday?
"In this powerful account, Rosie Thomas opens out filmic artifacts to an array of dazzling reflections shedding new light on the movement and circulation of popular culture in IndiaWith a remarkable body of research conducted over a period of time, Bombay before Bollywood decisively challenges certain assumptions about India, its cinemas, and its audiences." — Ranjani Mazumdar, author of Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City
"This is the archaeology of media performed with intellect, wit, and passion. Rosie Thomas pioneered this field and she remains its most brilliantly iridescent critic and advocate. If only all film studies were this revelatory and this enjoyable!" — Christopher Pinney, author of Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs
"Rosie Thomas's body of research over the last twenty-five years has set up key discourses in the study of Indian popular cinema. This book brings together her pioneering fieldwork into film industry categories and practices, and her more recent bid to resurrect a history made well-nigh clandestine by official narratives: the significance of Arabian Nights fantasies, stunt films, and visceral attractions in Bombay cinema. Pleasurably crafted and provocatively argued, Bombay before Bollywood is an important intervention in Indian and world cinema studies." — Ravi Vasudevan, author of The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema
At the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom,Rosie Thomas is Professor of Film, Faculty of Media, Arts, and Design, Director of the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, and Co-Director of the India Media Centre.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781438456751 |
| ISBN 10 | 1438456751 |
| Title | Bombay before Bollywood |
| Author | Rosie Thomas |
| Series | Suny Series Horizons Of Cinema |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2015-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 346 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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