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_aUnite states of America: _bSuny Press, _c2013. |
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505 | _aontents -- 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 -- | ||
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