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Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! : Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (274 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252091780
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!DDC classification:
  • 791.4302/8092291411
LOC classification:
  • PN1993
Online resources:
Contents:
front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Translocating Hollywood Stardom in India -- PART I. "INDIA HAS NO STARS -- 1. The Split Discourse of Indian Stardom -- 2. The Morality and Machinery of Stardom -- 3. Real and Imagined Stars -- 4. Spectatorial Desires and the Hierarchies of Stardom -- PART II. "THIS STARDOM RACKET -- 5. Monopoly, Frontality, and Doubling in Postwar Bombay Cinema -- 6. Nargis and the Double Space of Female Desire in Anhonee -- 7. The Embodied Voice: Song Sequences and Stardom in Bomby Cinema -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- back cover.
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front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Translocating Hollywood Stardom in India -- PART I. "INDIA HAS NO STARS -- 1. The Split Discourse of Indian Stardom -- 2. The Morality and Machinery of Stardom -- 3. Real and Imagined Stars -- 4. Spectatorial Desires and the Hierarchies of Stardom -- PART II. "THIS STARDOM RACKET -- 5. Monopoly, Frontality, and Doubling in Postwar Bombay Cinema -- 6. Nargis and the Double Space of Female Desire in Anhonee -- 7. The Embodied Voice: Song Sequences and Stardom in Bomby Cinema -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- back cover.

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