Bollywood's India : a public fantasy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Joshi, Priya (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Subjects:	India > In motion pictures. Motion pictures > India > History > 20th century. Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Preface: The social work of cinema
Bollywood's India
Making India
Remaking India I
Remaking India II
Unmaking "India"
Cinema as public fantasy "two dynasties that rule the nation's popular imagination"
Police and thieves
Career opportunities
Cinema as family romance
Film, family, and family romance
Deewaar, the manifest narrative
"India is Indira"
Bollywood, Bollylite
The world according to Bollywood
The world according to Hollywood
Bollylite in America
Epilogue: Anthem for a new India.