Bombay Cinema An Archive of the City

Name: Bombay Cinema An Archive of the City
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ISBN: 9780816649426

ISBN-10: 0816649421

ISBN-13: 9780816649426

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ranjani Mazumdar

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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. InBombay Cinema,Ranjani Mazumdar takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding Bombay cinema as the unofficial archive of the city in India. nbsp; In this analysis of the cinematic city, Mazumdar reveals a complex postnationalist world, convulsed by the social crisis of the 1970s and transformed by the experience of globalization in the 1990s. She argues that the upheaval of postcolonial nationalism led to Bombay cinemarsquo;s articulation of urban life in entirely new…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 4/23/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Urban Allegories



Rage on Screen



The Rebellious Tapori



Desiring Women



The Panoramic Interior



Gangland Bombay


Conclusion: After Life


Notes


Bibliography


Index