Bollywood's India
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Bollywood's India

A Public Fantasy

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A Public Fantasy

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Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters 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, Bollywood's India analyzes the role of the cinema's most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern India.

With dazzling interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi provides an interdisciplinary account of popular cinema as a space that filters politics and modernity for its viewers. Themes such as crime and punishment, family and individuality, vigilante and community capture the diffuse aspirations of an evolving nation. Summoning India's tumultuous 1970s as an interpretive lens, Joshi reveals the cinema's social work across decades that saw the decline of studios, the rise of the multi-starrer genre, and the arrival of corporate capital and new media platforms. In elegantly crafted studies of iconic and less familiar films, including Awara (1951), Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957), Deewaar (1975), Sholay (1975), Dil Se (1998), A Wednesday (2008), and 3 Idiots (2009), Joshi powerfully conveys the pleasures and politics of Bollywood blockbusters.

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780231539074
Topic
Medien & darstellende Kunst
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraphs
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations and Tables
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Preface: The Social Work of Cinema
  10. 1. Bollywood’s India
  11. 2. Cinema as Public Fantasy
  12. 3. Cinema as Family Romance
  13. 4. Bollywood, Bollylite
  14. Epilogue: Anthem for a New India
  15. Notes
  16. Filmography
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index