Bollywood: A History - Hardcover

Bose, Mihir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0752428357 ISBN 13: 9780752428352

Verlag: The History Press Ltd, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 380 pages; Physical desc. : 380 p. , [8] p. Of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Subject: Motion picture industry - India - Bombay - History. Motion pictures - India - Bombay - History. Motion picture industry - India - History. Summary: The first comprehensive history of India's film industry, one that now rivals Hollywood. Hollywood may define our idea of movies but it is the city of Bombay on the west coast of India that is now the center of world cinema. Every year the Indian film industry produces more than a 1,000 feature films, every day fourteen million Indians go to a movie and, a billion more people a year buy tickets for Indian movies than for Hollywood ones. The rise of Bombay as the film capital of the world has been remarkable. Bollywood takes the cinematic tech-niques of Hollywood and uses them to produce movies that bear no relation to the original, but have a compelling appeal, that, in the last half a century, has enthralled audiences throughout eastern Europe, the Middle East and north Africa. The movies themselves are a self contained world with their multiple song and dance routines, intense melodrama, a plot that contains everything from farce to tragedy, but always produces a happy ending. The men and women who create these movies are even more remarkable and it is this fantastic, rich, diverse story, a veritable Indian fairyland that Mihir Bose, a native of Bombay, tells with vivid brilliance, in the first comprehensive history of this major social and cultural phenomenon.

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Every year the Indian film industry produces more than a 1,000 feature films; every day 14 million Indians go to a movie; and a billion more people a year buy tickets for Indian movies than for their Hollywood-produced counterparts. Bombay's studios have taken the cinematic techniques of Hollywood and used them to produce features that have enthralled audiences throughout eastern Europe, the Middle East, and beyond. The result is the Bollywood movie, a film genre characterised by multiple song and dance routines, intense melodrama, and plots containing everything from farce to tragedy. This is the fantastic, diverse, and rich story of the social and cultural phenomenon of Bollywood and an up-close look at the men, women, and ideas that have fuelled its incredible growth.

Biografía del autor

Mihir Bose is an award winning Indian-born writer and journalist who lives in London. He grew up in Bombay watching the story of Bollywood unfold long before it got the name Bollywood. Author of books ranging from history through sport and business to biography they include controversial biographies of the Indian nationalist Subhas Bose and the Aga Khans, which was banned by three countries. His History of the Indian Cricket was the first book by an Indian author to win the presti-gious Cricket Society Literary Award. A journalist for more than thirty years he has written for all the major British newspapers. He is currently the sports news correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. He lives in London.

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• Verlag: The History Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0752428357
• ISBN 13: 9780752428352
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256