Bollywood (Pocket Essentials)

by Ashok K. Banker
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing (2002-04)
ISBN: 1903047455
EAN: 9781903047453
Binding/Media: Paperback - 96 pages
SKU: L1-49090507002
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: This copy is in good condition. No visible markings, highlights, underlining, tears to text. Tight spine. No Dust Jacket. Front Soft Cover has a few tiny unmarked pen point prints and a small crease. Tiny scratches to front/back with light/minimum, shelf/edge wear. Great copy, worth having at an affordable price. (L1-49)

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Bombay's prolific Hindi-language film industry is more than just a giant entertainment juggernaut for 1 billion-plus Indians worldwide. It's a part of Indian culture, language, fashion and lifestyles. It's also a great bundle of contradictions and contrasts, like India itself. Thrillers, horror, murder mysteries, courtroom dramas, Hong Kong-style action gunfests, romantic comedies, soap operas, mythological costume dramas...they're all blended with surprising skill into the musical boy-meets-girl formula of Bollywood. The results are a bizarre, overblown mixture of high concept, ethnic colour, traditional values, high-pitched emotional drama, sizzling sensuality and music, always music. What's in this book? As well as an introductory essay, a selection of 25 major seminal films are examined in entertaining, intimate detail. There's also a section on the current state of the industry, the star system, film music and a list of additional books and films that will help you enjoy and make sense of the new Hindi movie showing at your nearest multiplex.

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