Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! : Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s.
Majumdar, Neepa.
Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! : Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (274 pages)
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.
9780252091780
Motion pictures - India - History.
Electronic books.
PN1993
791.4302/8092291411
Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! : Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (274 pages)
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.
9780252091780
Motion pictures - India - History.
Electronic books.
PN1993
791.4302/8092291411