Wanted cultured ladies only! : female stardom and cinema in India, 1930s-1950s / Neepa Majumdar.

Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! maps out the early culture of cinema stardom in India from its emergence in the silent era to the decade after Indian independence in the mid-twentieth century. Neepa Majumdar combines readings of specific films and stars with an analysis of the historical and cultural c...

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Main Author: Majumdar, Neepa, 1961- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
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505 0 |a Translocating : Hollywood stardom in India -- The split discourse of Indian stardom -- The morality and machinery of stardom -- Real and imagined stars -- Spectatorial desires and the hierarchies of stardom -- Monopoly, frontality, and doubling in postwar Bombay cinema -- Nargis and the double space of female desire in Anhonee -- The embodied voice : song sequences and stardom in Bombay cinema. 
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