Bombay Before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies
Thomas, Rosie
Bombay Before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies - Unite states of America: Suny Press, 2013. - 346p.
ontents --
List of Tables and Figures --
Credits --
Acknowledgments --
Chapter 1 Bombay before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies --
The Challenge --
Bombay Before Bollywood --
Towards Some Alternative Histories --
Looking Back: The Longer View --
Notes --
Part One: Introduction to Part One --
Notes --
Chapter 2 Thieves of the Orient: The Arabian Nights in Early Indian Cinema --
The Arabian Nights in India: Circulation and Adaptation --
Lal-E-Yaman (1933) and Noor-E-Yaman (1935) --
Orientalism and the Islamicate --
The Appeal --
Notes Chapter 3 Distant Voices, Magic Knives: Lal-e-Yaman and the Transition to Sound in Bombay CinemaBackground --
Production --
Success --
The Disembodied Voice --
Sound and Vision --
Modernities --
Notes --
Chapter 4 Not Quite (Pearl) White: Fearless Nadia, Queen of the Stunts --
Early Years of Bombay Cinema --
Wadia Movietone and Nadia --
Nationalist Politics --
Two Visions --
The Nadia Persona --
Diamond Queen --
Mimicry --
Notes --
Chapter 5 Zimbo and Son Meet the Girl with a Gun --
Introduction --
Remakes and Hollywood --
Basant Studios Toofani Tarzan: India's 1937 Super Hit'Indianisation' --
Tarzan and Leela --
Tarzan's Appeal in India --
Girls, Guns and the Basant Brand --
Notes --
Chapter 6 Still Magic: An Aladdin's Cave of 1950s B-Movie Fantasy --
Magical Worlds --
Arabian Nights --
A Fabulous Orient --
Brute Strength --
An Enchanted Gaze --
Notes --
Part Two: Introduction to Part Two --
Notes --
Chapter 7 Where the Money Flows, the Camera Rolls --
Introduction --
Financing Film Production --
Credit --
Financiers --
World Rights Control --
Territorial Mortgage Hundi or 'Time Bill'Distributors --
Minimum Guarantee --
Advance --
Outright --
Territories --
Exhibitors --
Organisation of Film Production --
Terms of Employment --
The Producer --
Setting up a Production --
Consequences of the Bombay System of Production --
Consequences of the Black Economy --
Distribution/Exhibition Strangleholds --
Consequences for Film Form and Content --
Notes --
Chapter 8 Indian Cinema: Pleasures and Popularity --
Narrative --
Verisimilitude --
The Spectator --
Notes Chapter 9 Sanctity and Scandal: The Mythologisation of Mother IndiaThe Film --
Background Reading --
The Star --
Notes --
Chapter 10 Mother India Maligned: The Saga of Sanjay Dutt --
Introduction --
Sadak --
The Star�Sanjay Dutt --
Khalnayak --
Coda --
Notes --
References and Select Bibliography --
Newspapers & Magazines --
9781438456768
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Motion pictures.
791.430954 / THO/B
Bombay Before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies - Unite states of America: Suny Press, 2013. - 346p.
ontents --
List of Tables and Figures --
Credits --
Acknowledgments --
Chapter 1 Bombay before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies --
The Challenge --
Bombay Before Bollywood --
Towards Some Alternative Histories --
Looking Back: The Longer View --
Notes --
Part One: Introduction to Part One --
Notes --
Chapter 2 Thieves of the Orient: The Arabian Nights in Early Indian Cinema --
The Arabian Nights in India: Circulation and Adaptation --
Lal-E-Yaman (1933) and Noor-E-Yaman (1935) --
Orientalism and the Islamicate --
The Appeal --
Notes Chapter 3 Distant Voices, Magic Knives: Lal-e-Yaman and the Transition to Sound in Bombay CinemaBackground --
Production --
Success --
The Disembodied Voice --
Sound and Vision --
Modernities --
Notes --
Chapter 4 Not Quite (Pearl) White: Fearless Nadia, Queen of the Stunts --
Early Years of Bombay Cinema --
Wadia Movietone and Nadia --
Nationalist Politics --
Two Visions --
The Nadia Persona --
Diamond Queen --
Mimicry --
Notes --
Chapter 5 Zimbo and Son Meet the Girl with a Gun --
Introduction --
Remakes and Hollywood --
Basant Studios Toofani Tarzan: India's 1937 Super Hit'Indianisation' --
Tarzan and Leela --
Tarzan's Appeal in India --
Girls, Guns and the Basant Brand --
Notes --
Chapter 6 Still Magic: An Aladdin's Cave of 1950s B-Movie Fantasy --
Magical Worlds --
Arabian Nights --
A Fabulous Orient --
Brute Strength --
An Enchanted Gaze --
Notes --
Part Two: Introduction to Part Two --
Notes --
Chapter 7 Where the Money Flows, the Camera Rolls --
Introduction --
Financing Film Production --
Credit --
Financiers --
World Rights Control --
Territorial Mortgage Hundi or 'Time Bill'Distributors --
Minimum Guarantee --
Advance --
Outright --
Territories --
Exhibitors --
Organisation of Film Production --
Terms of Employment --
The Producer --
Setting up a Production --
Consequences of the Bombay System of Production --
Consequences of the Black Economy --
Distribution/Exhibition Strangleholds --
Consequences for Film Form and Content --
Notes --
Chapter 8 Indian Cinema: Pleasures and Popularity --
Narrative --
Verisimilitude --
The Spectator --
Notes Chapter 9 Sanctity and Scandal: The Mythologisation of Mother IndiaThe Film --
Background Reading --
The Star --
Notes --
Chapter 10 Mother India Maligned: The Saga of Sanjay Dutt --
Introduction --
Sadak --
The Star�Sanjay Dutt --
Khalnayak --
Coda --
Notes --
References and Select Bibliography --
Newspapers & Magazines --
9781438456768
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Motion pictures.
791.430954 / THO/B