Wanted cultured ladies only! : female stardom and cinema in India, 1930s-1950s

Wanted cultured ladies only! : female stardom and cinema in India, 1930s-1950s /

Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! maps out the early culture of cinema stardom in India from its emergence in the silent era to the decade after Indian independence in the mid-twentieth century. Neepa Majumdar combines readings of specific films and stars with an analysis of the historical and cultural c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Majumdar, Neepa, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Motion pictures > India > History.
Motion picture actors and actresses > India > Biography.
Actresses > India > Biography.
Women in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Acting & Auditioning.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Actresses
Motion picture actors and actresses
Motion pictures
Women in motion pictures
India
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Translocating : Hollywood stardom in India
  • The split discourse of Indian stardom
  • The morality and machinery of stardom
  • Real and imagined stars
  • Spectatorial desires and the hierarchies of stardom
  • Monopoly, frontality, and doubling in postwar Bombay cinema
  • Nargis and the double space of female desire in Anhonee
  • The embodied voice : song sequences and stardom in Bombay cinema.

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