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Sirens of Modernity : World Cinema via Bombay / Samhita Sunya.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Cinema Cultures in Contact ; 3Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520976788
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430954
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.I8
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- "Akira Kurosawa" A Retrospective Prologue -- Introduction "Romance, Comedy, and Somewhat Jazzy Music" -- Part One. Establishing Shots: World Cinema in Tongues -- 1. Problems of Translation: World Cinema as Distribution History -- 2. Moving toward the "City of Love": Hindustani Lyrical Genealogies -- Part Two. Star-Crossed Overtures: Cinephilia in Excess -- 3. Homosocialist Coproductions: Pardesi (1957) contra Singapore (1960) -- 4. Comedic Crossovers and Madras Money-Spinners: Padosan's (1968) Audiovisual Apparatus -- 5. Foreign Exchanges: Transregional Trafficking through Subah-O-Sham (1972) -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- "Akira Kurosawa" A Retrospective Prologue -- Introduction "Romance, Comedy, and Somewhat Jazzy Music" -- Part One. Establishing Shots: World Cinema in Tongues -- 1. Problems of Translation: World Cinema as Distribution History -- 2. Moving toward the "City of Love": Hindustani Lyrical Genealogies -- Part Two. Star-Crossed Overtures: Cinephilia in Excess -- 3. Homosocialist Coproductions: Pardesi (1957) contra Singapore (1960) -- 4. Comedic Crossovers and Madras Money-Spinners: Padosan's (1968) Audiovisual Apparatus -- 5. Foreign Exchanges: Transregional Trafficking through Subah-O-Sham (1972) -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

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