Bombay before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies
(eBook)

Grouping Information

Book Cover Information

Hoopla Extract Information

stdClass Object
(
    [year] => 2015
    [artist] => Rosie Thomas
    [fiction] => 
    [coverImageUrl] => https://cover.hoopladigital.com/csp_9781438456775_270.jpeg
    [titleId] => 13747587
    [isbn] => 9781438456775
    [abridged] => 
    [language] => ENGLISH
    [profanity] => 
    [title] => Bombay before Bollywood
    [demo] => 
    [segments] => Array
        (
        )

    [pages] => 346
    [children] => 
    [artists] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [name] => Rosie Thomas
                    [artistFormal] => Thomas, Rosie
                    [relationship] => AUTHOR
                )

        )

    [genres] => Array
        (
            [0] => Asia
            [1] => Film & Video
            [2] => History
            [3] => History & Criticism
            [4] => Performing Arts
            [5] => South - General
        )

    [price] => 4.69
    [id] => 13747587
    [edited] => 
    [kind] => EBOOK
    [active] => 1
    [upc] => 
    [synopsis] => Traces the development of Indian cinema from the 1920s to the mid-1990s, before "Bollywood" erupted onto the world stage.

Bombay before Bollywood offers a fresh, alternative look at the history of Indian cinema. Avoiding the conventional focus on India's social and mythological films, Rosie Thomas examines the subaltern genres of the "magic and fighting films"-the fantasy, costume, and stunt films popular in the decades before and immediately after independence. She explores the influence of this other cinema on the big-budget masala films of the 1970s and 1980s, before "Bollywood" erupted onto the world stage in the mid-1990s.

Thomas focuses on key moments in this hidden history, including the 1924-fairy fantasy Gul-e-Bakavali; the 1933 talkie Lal-e-Yaman; the exploits of stunt queen Fearless Nadia; the magical neverlands of Hatimtai and Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp; and the 1960s stunt capers Zimbo and Khilari. 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.
    [url] => https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13747587
    [pa] => 
    [series] => SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    [subtitle] => Film City Fantasies
    [publisher] => State University of New York Press
    [purchaseModel] => INSTANT
)