Bollywood : sociology goes to the movies / Rajinder Kumar Dudrah.

By:

Dudrah, Rajinder Kumar

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage, 2006Description: 210 pISBN:

076193460X
0761934618 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

302.23/430954 22

LOC classification:

PN1993.5.I8 D83 2006

Contents:

Towards a sociology of cinema -- Singing for India: songs in the Bollywood Film -- Reading popular Hindi films in the diaspora and the performance of urban Indian and diasporic identity -- Bollywood cinema going in New York City -- Queer as Desis: secret politics of gender and sexuality in Bollywood Films in diasporic urban ethnoscapes -- Between and beyond Bollywood and Hollywood.

Review: "Engaging the discipline of sociology to study the phenomenon of Bollywood cinema, this book examines popular Hindi cinema as a global industry and its films as popular cultural texts. It also considers the relationships that are possible between cinema and its audiences. Though there have been theoretical accounts and textual readings of Bollywood films, this is the first book to study them from these perspectives." "The author approaches Bollywood cinema through an interdisciplinary conversation with studies of the cinema drawn from sociology, film, media and cultural studies." "Providing an interdisciplinary understanding of the possible relationships between cinema and culture and society, this book will be welcomed by students, researchers and scholars of sociology, film, media and cultural studies as well as by the general reader interested in the study of popular Indian cinema."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Engaging the discipline of sociology to study the phenomenon of Bollywood cinema, this book examines popular Hindi cinema as a global industry and its films as popular cultural texts. It also considers the relationships that are possible between cinema and its audiences. Though there have been theoretical accounts and textual readings of Bollywood films, this is the first book to study them from these perspectives." "The author approaches Bollywood cinema through an interdisciplinary conversation with studies of the cinema drawn from sociology, film, media and cultural studies." "Providing an interdisciplinary understanding of the possible relationships between cinema and culture and society, this book will be welcomed by students, researchers and scholars of sociology, film, media and cultural studies as well as by the general reader interested in the study of popular Indian cinema."--BOOK JACKET.

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