Penguin Books, 2013. — 200 p. — ISBN: 9789351181743. Reprint of a very good book first published in 2000. Sholay screened in 1975 is a landmark in the Hindi cinema. Inspired by westerns, it had all the elements of a commercial Hindo film, cheap titllating dance, melodrama and low comedy. It succeeded on account of ensemble acting by Amitabh, Jaya, Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar,...
Routledge, London & New York, 2006. — 208 p. Language: English. Filming the Gods examines the role and depiction of religion in Indian cinema, showing that the relationship between the modern and the traditional in contemporary India is not exotic, but part of everyday life. Concentrating mainly on the Hindi cinema of Mumbai, Bollywood, it also discusses India’s other cinemas....
NY: Routledge, 2004. — X, 254 p.: ill. — (Routledge Film Guidebooks). — ISBN: 978-0415583886. '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...
Calcutta: Ritwik Memorial Trust, 1987. — 149 p. — ISBN: 9789383200917. Ritwik Ghatak (1925-76) is the most uncompromising Bengali movie maestro from 20th century India. Cinema & I is the collection of his writings and interviews. In this collection of 20 essays and 17 interviews, dazzling brilliance of a true artist's mind, illuminates the cultural layers of human civilization...
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. — 293 p. — (Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series). — ISBN: 978-0292717862. Indian movies are among the most popular in the world. However, despite increased availability and study, these films remain misunderstood and underappreciated in much of the English-speaking world, in part for cultural reasons. In this book,...
ABC CLIO 2006, p. 305 Pop Culture India! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle follows the rise of modern India's pop culture world, especially since the 1980s, when relaxed censorship and economic liberalization led to an explosion in movies, music, mass media, consumerism, spiritual practices, and more. It is a captivating introduction to a diverse nation whose appetite for...
New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers India, 1996. — 120 [5] p.: ill. — ISBN: 978-8172232108. The present study is an attempt to capture the glory of popular Hindi cinema; to look behind the phantasmagoria and find out why the magic works. Why does Tom like to go to the movies again and again? For adventure alone? The discussion is centred around contemporary mainstream cinema...
University of Minnesota Press, 2007. — 259 p. — ISBN: 9780816649419. Cinema is not only a major industry in India, it is a powerful cultural force. But until now, no one has undertaken a major examination of the ways in which films made in Bombay mediate the urban experience in India. In Bombay Cinema, Ranjani Mazumdar takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding Bombay...
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