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Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema (Routledge Filmguidebooks) | 
 enlarge | Author: Tejaswini Ganti
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2996135
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0415288533
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.430954
EAN: 9780415288538
ASIN: 0415288533
Publication Date: August 24, 2004
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"Bollywood" - once a tongue-in-cheek term used by the English-language media in India - has become the dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry located in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995). Characterized by music, dance routines, melodrama, lavish production values and an emphasis on stars and spectacle, Bollywood films have met with box-office success and enthusiastic audiences from Bombay to West Africa to Russia, and throughout the English-speaking world.
In Bollywood, anthropologist and film scholar Tejaswini Ganti provides a guide to the cultural, social and political significance of Hindi cinema, outlining the history and structure of the Bombay film industry, and its impact on global popular culture. Providing information and commentary on the key players in Bollywood, from composers to directors and stars, as well as material from current filmmakers themselves, areas covered in Bollywood include:
*Chronology
MainThemes in Hindi Cinema
*Key Characteristics of Popular Hindi Cinema
*Significant Filmmakers
*Significant Films
*Scholarship about Hindi Cinema
*Filmmakers Point of View
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 just an introduction June 22, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ganti's book is a brief but illuminating walk inside Bollywood. For someone who is perhaps not of Indian ethnicity, and knows nothing about Bollywood, the book explains much. You can learn about the sheer volume of production of movies each year. Though the budgets of each are lamentably much less than for a Hollywood movie.
The book also attests to India's increasing "soft power". Bollywood is one of India's main cultural exports, along with its cuisine. Several famous Bollywood movies are explained, in how they address universal human issues with an Indian touch.
critic December 14, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
interesting and easy to read. A good first approach of the bollywood film industry. Not enough photos and no colours.
 Bollywood 101 April 30, 2005
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This little book by Tejaswini Ganti is the ideal introduction for anyone who wants to get to know Bollywood. Smart, concise, it's a very easy and informative read.
After an historical introduction to Indian cinema from the beginnings (just after the invention of cinema) to the glossy new millenium Bollywood of ZeeTV and NRI romances; Ganti procedes to a general presentation of the inner workings of the Hindi Film Industry (name usually prefered by scholars to the term Bollywood): how is a film made in Bombay ? who produces, how? who distributes, where? who has the power? This part along with the long historical introduction are the core material of the book, short but truly essential.
NB Ganti focuses on Bollywood (located in Bombay). for beginners who think that Indian cinema is Bollywood, take note: it's not. Therefore the book acknowledges Middle cinema, art cinema, tamil, telugu, bengali cinema but never deals with these topics.
After the "technical" part of the book, the rest is dedicated to an overview of the major films and personnalities of the profession. The major films chapter provides a very useful filmography that gives the neofit a very interesting selection of films to get to know Bollywood thru the ages. Each film has a detailed summary that sometimes includes historical insights or important trivia. Then there is the chapter about who's who in Bollywood, she lists major directors (although for most recent cinema many names are missing, as she herself underlines in the end notes), music and lyrics writers, actors and actresses (here again many recent actors and actresses box office sweethearts are overlooked but it's difficult to keep up with the star system and not all stars deserve such academic attention anyway, so if you're a Bollywood geek get over the absence of Salman Khan or Rani Mukherjee in that section).
The end of the book is a series of interviews with directors, actors, producers... and this is where you will eventually find the "new comers" such as ShahRukh Khan (in a really cute itw for that matter) ...
Ganti provides a short bibliography which is also very needed since ressources on Bollywood are not necessarily the easiest to find.
Overall a great little guide that can prove essential to any world cinema class or even (in my case) anthropology class.
as a complement to that guide I recommand Prasad's book Ideology of the hindi film a historical construction, a very insightful book with detailed analysis of such classics as Deewar for instance.
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