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Cinema is a major industry in India. It is also the country`s most powerful cultural form. Yet until now there has been no major examination of the ways in which Bombay`s films serve as a medium for the experience of urban India. Mazumdar`s book reveals a complex modern world convulsed by social crises and transformed by globalization. It leads us into the heart of India`s urban labyrinth, changing and deepening our understanding of a country, its cities, and its cinema.
˜Investigating urban types”angry young men, dangerous psychotics, street loafers, prostitutes, yuppies and gangsters”Ranjani Mazumdar shows how recent Indian cinema provides an archive of urban spaces and of the trauma of a deep social disillusionment ... an urban space imploding under the pressure of globalization and new technology`, says the film critic Tom Gunning.
˜Bombay Cinema is an inspired account of Hindi films as a rich and textured archive of modern urban life in India ... A true gem`, says the historian Gyan Prakash.
ISBN :9788178242712
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Pages : 296
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