Unruly Cinema: History, Politics, and Bollywood by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta (Engl

Description: Unruly Cinema by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta Between 1931 and 2000, Indias popular cinema steadily overcame Hollywood domination. Bollywood, the film industry centered in Mumbai, became nothing less than a global cultural juggernaut. But Bollywood is merely one part of the countrys prolific, multilingual cinema. Unruly Cinema looks at the complex series of events that allowed the entire Indian film industry to defy attempts to control, reform, and refine it in the twentieth century and beyond. Rini Bhattacharya Mehta considers four aspects of Indian cinemas complicated history. She begins with the industrys surprising, market-driven triumph over imports from Hollywood and elsewhere in the 1930s. From there she explores how the nationalist social melodrama outwitted the government with its 1950s cinematic lyrical manifestoes. In the 1970s, an action cinema centered on the angry young male co-opted the voice of the oppressed. Finally, Mehta examines Indian films discovery of the global neoliberal aesthetic that encouraged the emergence of Bollywood. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Rini Bhattacharya Mehta is an assistant professor of comparative and world literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a coeditor of Bollywood and Globalization: Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora. Review "A rigorous and monumental historical study of Bombay-produced Hindi cinema, which addresses the paradoxes of Bollywoods histories in highly engaging as well as truly enlightening ways. This is an essential study of Indian popular cinema and its indomitability."—Catherine Grant, coauthor of The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image"The longue durée of Bollywood is the subject of Unruly Cinema. A lively and textured account of the contradictory development of mainstream Hindi cinema as an industrial product, on the one hand, and an art form, on the other, this book is a must read for students of South Asian film, the culture industry, and discourses of globalization."—Keya Ganguly, author of Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray Long Description Between 1931 and 2000, Indias popular cinema steadily overcame Hollywood domination. Bollywood, the film industry centered in Mumbai, became nothing less than a global cultural juggernaut. But Bollywood is merely one part of the countrys prolific, multilingual cinema. Unruly Cinema looks at the complex series of events that allowed the entire Indian film industry to defy attempts to control, reform, and refine it in the twentieth century and beyond. Rini Bhattacharya Mehta considers four aspects of Indian cinemas complicated history. She begins with the industrys surprising, market-driven triumph over imports from Hollywood and elsewhere in the 1930s. From there she explores how the nationalist social melodrama outwitted the government with its 1950s cinematic lyrical manifestoes. In the 1970s, an action cinema centered on the angry young male co-opted the voice of the oppressed. Finally, Mehta examines Indian films discovery of the global neoliberal aesthetic that encouraged the emergence of Bollywood. Review Text ""A rigorous and monumental historical study of Bombay-produced Hindi cinema, which addresses the paradoxes of Bollywoods histories in highly engaging as well as truly enlightening ways. This is an essential study of Indian popular cinema and its indomitability.""--Catherine Grant, coauthor of The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image ""The longue dur Review Quote "The longue dur Details ISBN0252084993 Year 2020 ISBN-10 0252084993 ISBN-13 9780252084997 Format Paperback Imprint University of Illinois Press Subtitle History, Politics, and Bollywood Place of Publication Baltimore Country of Publication United States Short Title Unruly Cinema Language English Author Rini Bhattacharya Mehta Pages 248 Publication Date 2020-06-04 UK Release Date 2020-06-04 NZ Release Date 2020-06-04 US Release Date 2020-06-04 Publisher University of Illinois Press Alternative 9780252043123 DEWEY 302.23/430954 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2020-05-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161659520;

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