India is home to Bollywood-the largest film industry in the world. Movie theaters are said to
be the" temples of modern India," with Bombay producing nearly 800 films per year that are …

The largest film industry in the world after Hollywood is celebrated in this updated and
expanded edition of a now classic work of reference. Covering the full range of Indian film …

In Doing Style, Constantine V. Nakassis explores the world of youth and mass media in
South India, where what Tamil youth call “style” anchors their day-to-day lives and media …

The continual, unpredictable, and often violent" traffic" between identities in colonial and
postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has …

A number of studies of this iconic film have grappled with what might be considered the
Sholay effect, namely, the special status this blockbuster enjoys, often abstracted from its …

It was June 1935, on a dark monsoon-lashed Bombay night that JBH Wadia was taking one
of the biggest gambles of his film production career. His new venture, Hunterwali (Woman …

While studies of mass media have proliferated in recent decades, anthropologists are only
beginning to turn their attention and their methods to this arena. In this article I consider the …

This is a book about popular Hindi film as viewed through its costume. More than this, it is
about the social environment in the city of Mumbai from which film costume comes and to …

A Bollywood blockbuster when it was released in 1977, Amar Akbar Anthony has become a
classic of Hindi cinema and a touchstone of Indian popular culture. Delighting audiences …

While not everyone would agree with Alfred Hitchcock's notorious remark that'actors are
cattle', there is little understanding of the work film actors do. Yet audience enthusiasm for, or …