Rini Bhattacharya Mehta considers four aspects of Indian cinema's complicated history. She begins with the industry's surprising, market-driven triumph over imports from Hollywood and elsewhere in the 1930s. From there she explores how the nationalist social melodrama outwitted the government with its 1950s cinematic lyrical manifestoes. In the 1970s, an action cinema centered on the angry young male co-opted the voice of the oppressed. Finally, Mehta examines Indian film's discovery of the global neoliberal aesthetic that encouraged the emergence of Bollywood.
| ISBN: | 9780252043123 |
| Publication date: | 22nd June 2020 |
| Author: | Rini Bhattacharya Mehta |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Genres: |
Film history, theory or criticism Asian history |
Between 1931 and 2000, India's popular cinema steadily overcame Hollywood domination. Bollywood, the film industry centered in Mumbai, became nothing less than a global cultural juggernaut.
Unruly Cinema features in the following genres: Film history, theory or criticism, Asian history
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Unruly Cinema was written by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and published by University of Illinois Press
Unruly Cinema has 248 pages