Bollywood's India: A Public Fantasy

Synopsis

Bollywood Is India's Most Popular Entertainment And One Of Its Most Powerful Social Forces. Its Blockbusters Contest Ideas About State Formation, Capture The Nation's Dispersed Anxieties, And Fabricate Public Fantasies Of What Constitutes India. Written By An Award-winning Scholar Of Popular Culture And Postcolonial Modernity, Bollywood's India Analyzes The Role Of The Cinema's Most Popular Blockbusters In Making, Unmaking, And Remaking Modern India.with Dazzling Interpretive Virtuosity, Priya Joshi Provides An Interdisciplinary Account Of Popular Cinema As A Space That Filters Politics And Modernity For Its Viewers. Themes Such As Crime And Punishment, Family And Individuality, Vigilante And Community Capture The Diffuse Aspirations Of An Evolving Nation. Summoning India's Tumultuous 1970s As An Interpretive Lens, Joshi Reveals The Cinema's Social Work Across Decades That Saw The Decline Of Studios, The Rise Of The Multi-starrer Genre, And The Arrival Of Corporate Capital And New Media Platforms. In Elegantly Crafted Studies Of Iconic And Less Familiar Films, Including Awara (1951), Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957), Deewaar (1975), Sholay (1975), Dil Se (1998), A Wednesday (2008), And 3 Idiots (2009), Joshi Powerfully Conveys The Pleasures And Politics Of Bollywood Blockbusters. Preface: The Social Work Of Cinema -- Bollywood's India -- Making India -- Remaking India I -- Remaking India Ii -- Unmaking India -- Cinema As Public Fantasy Two Dynasties That Rule The Nation's Popular Imagination -- Police And Thieves -- Career Opportunities -- Cinema As Family Romance -- Film, Family, And Family Romance -- Deewaar, The Manifest Narrative -- India Is Indira -- Bollywood, Bollylite -- The World According To Bollywood -- The World According To Hollywood -- Bollylite In America -- Epilogue: Anthem For A New India. Priya Joshi. Includes Bibliographical References, Filmography And Index.