TY - BOOK AU - Majumdar,Neepa TI - Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s SN - 9780252091780 AV - PN1993 U1 - 791.4302/8092291411 PY - 2009/// CY - Champaign PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Motion pictures - India - History KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3414066 ER -