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.