Sirens of Modernity

World Cinema via Bombay

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5785232
AutoresSamhita Sunya (autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Fecha de publicación2022-07-15
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaSirens of Modernity (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/9780520976788
OpenAlexW4288732528
Open LibraryOL38911355M
ISBN9780520976788
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas17

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org . By the 1960s, Hindi-language films from Bombay were in high demand not only for domestic and diasporic audiences but also for sizable non-diasporic audiences across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian Ocean world. Often confounding critics who painted the song-dance films as noisy and nonsensical. if not dangerously seductive and utterly vulgar, Bombay films attracted fervent worldwide viewers precisely for their elements of romance, music, and spectacle. In this richly documented history of Hindi cinema during the long 1960s, Samhita Sunya historicizes the emergence of world cinema as a category of cinematic diplomacy that formed in the crucible of the Cold War. Interwoven with this history is an account of the prolific transnational circuits of popular Hindi films alongside the efflorescence of European art cinema and Cold War-era forays of Hollywood abroad. By following archival leads and threads of argumentation within commercial Hindi films that seem to be odd cases-flops, remakes, low-budget comedies, and prestige productions-this book offers a novel map for excavating the historical and ethical stakes of world cinema and world-making via Bombay

Cinema and Media Studies · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · South Asian Cinema and Culture