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Bollywood: Sociology Goes to the Movies / by Rajinder Kumar Dudrah
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TextPublication details: New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006Description: 210pISBN: - 817829611X
- 302.23430954 D851
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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 combined perpectives. 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
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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 combined perpectives. 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
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