Sirens of Modernity World Cinema via Bombay
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. By the 1960s, Hindi-language films from Bombay were in high demand not only for domestic and diasporic audiences but also for sizable non-diasporic audiences across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press
2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Cinema Cultures in Contact Series
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009670635306719 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- “Akira Kurosawa” A Retrospective Prologue
- Introduction “Romance, Comedy, and Somewhat Jazzy Music”
- Part One. Establishing Shots: World Cinema in Tongues
- 1. Problems of Translation: World Cinema as Distribution History
- 2. Moving toward the “City of Love”: Hindustani Lyrical Genealogies
- Part Two. Star-Crossed Overtures: Cinephilia in Excess
- 3. Homosocialist Coproductions: Pardesi (1957) contra Singapore (1960)
- 4. Comedic Crossovers and Madras Money-Spinners: Padosan’s (1968) Audiovisual Apparatus
- 5. Foreign Exchanges: Transregional Trafficking through Subah-O-Sham (1972)
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
