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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819859803321

Autore

Basu Anustup

Titolo

Bollywood in the age of new media : the geo-televisual aesthetic / / Anustup Basu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-7486-5124-1

1-282-89980-5

9786612899805

0-7486-4323-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

791.430954

Soggetti

Motion pictures - India - History

Motion picture industry - India - Bombay - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Part I Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Cinematic "Assemblages": The 1990's and Earlier; CHAPTER 2 The Geo-televisual and Hindi Film in the Age of Information; Part II Informatics, Sovereignty, and the Cinematic City; CHAPTER 3 Allegories of Power/Information; CHAPTER 4 The Music of Intolerable Love: Indian Film Music, Globalization, and the Sound of Partitioned Selves; Part III Myth and Repetition; CHAPTER 5 Technopolis and the Ramayana: New Temporalities; CHAPTER 6 Repetitions with Difference: Mother India and her Thousand Sons; Epilogue

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

This is a study of popular Indian cinema in the age of globalisation, new media, and metropolitan Hindu fundamentalism, focusing on the period between 1991 and 2004.