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Author Joshi, Priya, author.

Title Bollywood's India : a public fantasy / Priya Joshi.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface: The social work of cinema -- Bollywood's India -- Making India -- Remaking India I -- Remaking India II -- Unmaking "India" -- Cinema as public fantasy "two dynasties that rule the nation's popular imagination" -- Police and thieves -- Career opportunities -- Cinema as family romance -- Film, family, and family romance -- Deewaar, the manifest narrative -- "India is Indira" -- Bollywood, Bollylite -- The world according to Bollywood -- The world according to Hollywood -- Bollylite in America -- Epilogue: Anthem for a new India.
Summary Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its films 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, this work analyses the role of Bollywood's most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern India.
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Subject India -- In motion pictures.
India.
Motion pictures -- India -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Joshi, Priya. Bollywood's India. New York : Columbia University Press, [2015] 9780231169608 (DLC) 2014042100 (OCoLC)896806631
ISBN 023153907X electronic book
9780231539074 electronic book
9780231169608 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
0231169604 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
9780231169615 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
0231169612 (paperback) (alkaline paper)