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Call No: 408.1(540) ROB
Author: Roberge, Gaston
Source: II
Place: Calcutta
Publisher: Seagull Books
PubDate: 1985
PhysDes: 151p. : ill. ; 22cm
Subject: CRITICISM; HISTORY OF CINEMA. INDIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. INDIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; BAZIN, ANDRE; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; RAY, SATYAJIT; WELLES, ORSON; BRON, PETER; BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); GANDHI (UK/II, Richard Attenborough, 1982); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NAPOLEON (FR, Abel Gance, 1927)
Summary: "Father Gaston Roberge, Director of Chitrabani, a Calcutta-based institution involved in development communication, and a media critic in his own right, with five title to his credit already, proposes, in his latest work, a militant programme... for another cinema committed to the building up of another society.' He offers revaluations of the established systems of film aesthetics, with fresh insights into the thoughts and works of Eisenstein, Bazin, Welles, and Ray; before analysing the Indian social scene in depth and detail, to suggest a comprehensive model for a parallel Indian cinema, complete with a new scheme for film and media education for the new cinema" -Book blurb
ISBN: 0861320751
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
Contents: Preface -- Part one: cinema -- Introduction: a militant programme -- What is it in cinema that makes it cinema -- Montage: the formative principle -- An anthropology of the cinema -- An exercise in film appreciation or the magnificent Andre Bazin -- Author-ity, text-uality and read-in(g) -- Part two: society -- The end of a film era -- Nine and one facts and not a few illusions -- Of many movies and some words to talk about them -- Films for social change -- Politics in film -- The politics of non-political cinema -- The cultural and social influence of foreign films -- History through films and filmed history -- Conclusion -- Film education for a new movie-man -- index

Call No: 71(540) BOL
Author: KIshore, Vikrant (ed.); Patra, Parichay (ed.); Sarwal, Amit (ed.)
Source: US/UK/AT
Place: Houndmills. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: xii, 229 pages ; 23 cm
Subject: INDIA; INDIA IN FILMS; BOLLYWOOD; INDIAN CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. INDIA; THEORY; DIASPORIC CINEMA; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA; MUSIC IN FILMS; SEX IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; AESTHETICS; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS
Summary: "How do we define the globalized cinema and media cultures of Bollywood in an age when it has become part of the cultural diplomacy of an emerging superpower? Is it still an 'other' industry in a world dominated by American Cinemas? Bollywood and Its Other(s) aims to compensate for the lack of scholarly literature on Bollywood studies by opening up hitherto unexplored sites or sites that are in formation. One of the most comprehensive volumes on Bollywood so far, it focuses on the aesthetic-philosophical questions of the other, Indian diaspora's negotiations with national identity, alternative reading strategies/research methods, marginal genres (sci-fi, horror), marginal characters (flaneuse, vamps), marginal gender (non-normative sexualities), marginal cinema (Hindi avant-garde), marginal language (Hinglish), and marginal regions (the Kashmir valley). It intends to address film scholars, South Asian studies researchers, cinephiles and lay readers alike.- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781137426499
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: -- list of figures -- notes on contributors -- introduction: Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra -- Section I Exploring the Other: Cinema, Aesthetics, Philosophy -- 1.Self, Other and Bollywood: The Evolution of the Hindi Film as a Site of Ambivalence / Dibyakusum Ray -- 2.Bombay Cinema's Aesthetic Other: Hindi Shastriya Cinema in Retrospect / Parichay Patra -- Section II Diaspora and the Formation of the Global Bollywood -- 3.Transgressing the Moral Universe: Bollywood and the Terrain of the Representable / Sarah A. Joshi -- 4.A Perfect Match: Entertainment and Excess of Cricket within the Diasporic Experience of Bollywood / Sanchari De and Manas Ghosh -- Section III The Musicality of Bollywood: Possibilities of Alternative Reading(s) -- 5.Hindi Popular Cinema and Its Peripheries: Of Female Singers, Performances and the Presence/Absence of Suraiya / Madhuja Mukherjee -- 6.'Dil Dance Maare Re': Bollywoodisation of the Indian Folk Dance Forms / Vikrant Kishore -- 7.The Systems Model of Creativity and Indian Film: A Study of Two Young Music Directors from Kerala, India / Phillip McIntyre, Bob Davis and Vikrant Kishore -- Section IV Bollywood's Other(s): Sexuality, B Movie, Queerness -- 8.Sugar and Spice: The Golden Age of the Hindi Movie Vamps, 1960s--1970s / Suneeti Rekhari -- 9.Popular Forms, Altering Normativities: Queer Buddies in Contemporary Mainstream Hindi Cinema / Aneeta Rajendran -- 10.Hinglish Cinema: The Confluence of East and West / Amit Sarwal -- 11.The Ramsay Chronicles: Non-normative Sexualities in Purana Mandir and Bandh Darwaza / Mithuraaj Dhusiya -- 12.Bollywood's Encounters with the Third Kind: A Critical Catalogue of Hindi Science Fiction Films / Sami Ahmad Khan -- Section V Bollywood's Other, India's Other -- 13.Death Becomes Her: Bombay Cinema, Nation and Kashmir: In Conversation with the Desire Machine Collective, Guwahati / Kaushik Bhaumik -- afterword: Anupam Sharma -- index --

Call No: 71(540/41) KRA
Author: Kramer, Lucia
Source: US/UK
Place: New York
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsburg Publishing
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: viii, 286 pages ; 24cm
Subject: BOLLYWOOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. UK; HISTORY OF CINEMA. INDIA; ADAPTATIONS; CRITICISM; THEORY; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. UK; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. INDIA; TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA
Summary: "Bollywood in Britain provides the most extensive survey to date of the various manifestations and facets of the Bollywood phenomenon in Britain. Kramer analyzes the role of Hindi films in the British film market, showing how audiences engage with Bollywood cinema and discussing the ways the image of Bollywood in Britain has been shaped. In contrast to most of the existing books on the subject, which tend to approach Bollywood as something that is made by Asians for Asians, the book also focuses on how Bollywood has been adapted for non-Asian Britons. An analysis of Bollywood as an unofficial brand is combined with in-depth readings of texts including film reviews, the TV show Bollywood Star (2004) and novels and plays with references to the Hindi film industry. On this basis Bollywood in Britain demonstrates that the presentation of Bollywood for British mainstream culture oscillates between moments of approximation and distancing, with a clear dominance of the latter. Despite its alleged transculturality, Bollywood in Britain thus emerges as a phenomenon of difference, distance and Othering"-- BACK COVER BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781501307614
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- 1: Introduction -- 2: What is 'Bollywood'? -- 3: Popular Indian Cinema in Britain - Facts and Figures -- 4: Britain and Indian Diaspora Films - Questions of Nostalgia -- 5: Beyond Films - The Development of the Bollywood Brand -- 6: the (trans)difference of Bollywood : British asians through the lens of 'Bollywood Star' -- 7: representations of the Hindi film industry in British first-hand reports -- 8: the changing image of Bollywood in British film reviews -- 9: Bollywood Adaptations -- 10: Conclusion -- notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index --

Call No: 71(540) DIN; FOLIO
Author: Raheja, Dinesh; Kothari, Jitendra
Place: London
Publisher: Aurum Press
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 155 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Subject: BOLLYWOOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. INDIA; INDIA
Summary: The book documents the incredible story of Hindi films, taking the reader on a chronologically-charted odyssey through each epoch of this historic and dramatic journey. [Adapted from the dust jacket blurb.]
Notes: Copyright: Roli & Janssen
ISBN: 1845130162

Call No: 408.1(540) ROY
Author: Roy, Anjali Gera
Source: II
Place: New Delhi
Publisher: Sage Publications
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: 334 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: BOLLYWOOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. INDIA; INDIA; INDIAN CINEMA; WORLD CINEMA
Summary: "Few would deny that the most significant weapon in India's cultural and artisitc armory is its avowedly commerical cinema, now known as Bollywood. This anthology aims to portray the "soft" power of Bollywood, which makes it a unique and powerful disseminator of Indian culture and values abroad. The essays in the book examine Bollywood's popularity within and outside South Asia, focusing on its role in international relations and diplomacy. In addition to contributions that directly engage with the notion of soft power, a number of essays in the volume testify to the attractiveness of Bollywood cinema for ethnically diverse groups across the world, probe the reasons for its appeal, and explore its audiences' identification with cinematic narratives. Established and emerging scholars in literature, theater, film, dance, music, media, cultural studies, and sociology from different parts of the world present their views from multidisciplinary perspectives based on case studies from Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Germany, Russia, the US, Senegal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Canada, in addition to India" -- BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9788132107323
Contents: -- list of tables -- list of abbreviations -- forword by Ishtiaq Ahmed -- acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction / Anjali Gera Roy -- Brand Bollywood and the new Bollywood film. -- Chapter two: Mainstream Hindi cinema and brand Bollywood: the transformation of a cultural artifact / M. K. Raghavendra -- Chapter 3: Post-national B(H)ollywood and the national imaginary / Meena T. Pillai -- Bollywood's soft power: some facts and figures. --Chapter 4: Bollywood and soft power: content trends and hybridity in popular Hindi cinema / David J. Schaefer and Kavita Karan -- Chapter 5: A regional mosaic: linguistic diversity and India's film trade / Sunitha Chitrapu -- Indian films' traditional markets: South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Russia. -- Chapter 6: "Dada negativity" and Pakistani characters in Bollywood films / Kamal ud Din and Nukhbah Taj Langah -- Chapter 7: Soft power and Pakistani viewers / Shahnaz Khan -- Chapter 8: Bollywood film culture in Indonesia's mediascapes / Shuri Mariasih Gietty Tambunan -- Chapter 9: Indian films in the USSR and Russia: past, present, and future / Elena Igorevna Doroshenko --Chapter 10: Indophilie and Bollywood's popularity in Senegal: strands of identity dynamics / Gwenda Vander Steene -- Chapter 11: "Bollywoodization" as (H)Indianization? Bangladesh film industry under national protection / Zakir Hossain Raju -- New territories: Bollywood in the West Australia, Canada, Europe, and New Zealand. -- Chapter 12: From tawa'if to wife? making sense of Bollywood's courtesan genre / Teresa Hubel -- Chapter 13; Bollywood in da club: social space in Toronto's "South Asian" community / Omme-Salma Rahemtullah -- Chapter 14: Bollywood internet forums and Australian cultural diplomacy / Andrew Hassam -- Chapter 15: Addressing the nonresident: soft power, Bollywood, and the diasporic audience / Adrian Athique -- chapter 16: Bollywood's circuits in Germany / Florian Krauss -- about the editor and contributors -- index --

Call No: 71(540) TRA
Author: Roy, Anjali Gera (ed.); Huat, Chua Beng (ed.)
Source: UK/II
Place: New Delhi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 2012
PhysDes: xxxi, 356 pages ; 23 cm
Subject: BOLLYWOOD; INDIA; INDIA IN FILMS; MUSICALS; GLOBALISATION; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. INDIA; SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (UK/US, Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan, 2008)
Summary: "This volume brings together perspectives on Indian popular cinema, universally known as Bollywood now, from different disciplinary and geographical locations to look afresh at national cinemas. It shows how Bollywood cinema has always crossed borders and boundaries: from the British Malaya, Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad, Mauritius, and East and South Africa to the former USSR, West Asia, the UK, the USA, Canada, and Australia. While looking at the meanings of nation, diaspora, home, and identity in cinematic texts and contexts, the essays also examine how localities are produced in the new global process by broadly addressing nationalism, regionalism, and transnationalism, politics, and aesthetics, as well as spectatorship and viewing contexts." -- BOOK JACKET
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 0198075987; 9780198075981
Contents: pt. 1 Modernity, Globalization, Globality -- 1.Bollywood, Postcolonial Transformation, and Modernity / Bill Ashcroft -- 2.Cultural Flows, Travelling Shows: Bombay Talkies, Global Times / Makarand Paranjape -- 3.Mustard Fields, Exotic Tropes, and Travels through Meandering Pathways: Reframing the Yash Raj Trajectory / Madhuja Mukherjee -- pt. 2 Love Across the Border -- 4.The Lahore Film Industry: A Historical Sketch / Ishtiaq Ahmed -- 5.From Chandigarh to Vancouver: Reimagining Home and Identity in the Films of Harbhajan Mann / Nicola Mooney -- 6.Bollywood, Tollywood, Dollywood: Re-visiting Cross-border Flows and the Beat of the 1970s in the Context of Globalization / Anuradha Ghosh 7. Cinematic border crossings in Two Bengals: cultural translation as communalization? / Zakir Hossain Raju -- pt.3 The other film industry -- 8. Region, Language, and Indian Cinema: Mysore and Kannada Language Cinema of the 1950s / M.K Raghavendra -- 9. Modernity and Male anxieties in early Malayalam cinema / Meena T. Pillai -- 10. Cinema in motion: tracking Tamil cinema's assemblage / Vijay Devadas and Selvaraj Velayutham -- pt.4 Village in the city -- 11. Migrant, Diaspora, NRI: Bhojpuri cinema and the 'Local in the global' / D. Parthasarathy -- 12. Welcome to Sajjan: Theatre and Transnational Hindi Cinema / Nandi Bhatia -- pt.5 The travels of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay to LA -- 13. Diasporic Bollywood: in the tracks of a twice-displaced community / Manas Ray -- 14. Marketing, Hybridity, and Media industries: Globalization and Expanding audiences for popular Hindi Cinema / Kavita Karan and David J. Schaefer -- 15. 'It was Filmed in My Home Town': Diasporic audiences and foreign locations in Indian popular cinema / Andrew Hassam -- 16. Yaari with Angrez: Whiteness for a New Bollywood Hero / Teresa Hubel -- 17. Bollywood films and African audiences / Gwenda Vander Steene -- 18. From Ghetto to Mainstream : Bollywood in/and South Africa / Haseenah Ebrahim --list of contributors -- index --