Binding: Paperback
Description: Bollywood is the dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995). Characterised by music dance routines melodrama lavish production values and an emphasis on stars and spectacle Bollywood films have met with box - office success and enthusiastic audiences from India to West Africa to Russia and throughout the English - speaking world. In Bollywood anthropologist and film scholar Tejaswini Ganti provides a guide to the cultural social and political significance of Hindi cinema outlining the history and structure of the Bombay film industry and the development of popular Hindi filmmaking since the 1930s. Providing information and commentary on the key players in Bollywood including directors and stars as well as material from current filmmakers themselves the areas covered in Bollywood include: history of Indian cinema narrative style main themes and key genres of Hindi cinema significant films directors and stars production and distribution of Bollywood films interviews with actors directors and screenwriters.
Title: Bollywood A Guidebook To Popular Hindi Cinema
Author(s): Ganti Tejaswini (New York University Usa)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415583886
Pages: 288 Pages, 40 Halftones, Black And White
Publication Date: 2/13/2013
Series: Routledge Film Guidebooks
Category: Cinema Industry