Wanted cultured ladies only! : female stardom and cinema in India, 1930s-1950s /
Majumdar, Neepa, 1961-
Wanted cultured ladies only! : female stardom and cinema in India, 1930s-1950s / Neepa Majumdar. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780252091780
Motion pictures--History.--India
Motion picture actors and actresses--India--Biography.
Actresses--India--Biography.
Women in motion pictures.
Actresses--Biography.--India
Motion picture actors and actresses--Biography.--India
Motion pictures--History.--India
Women in motion pictures.
Electronic Books.
PN1993 / .W368 2009
Wanted cultured ladies only! : female stardom and cinema in India, 1930s-1950s / Neepa Majumdar. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780252091780
Motion pictures--History.--India
Motion picture actors and actresses--India--Biography.
Actresses--India--Biography.
Women in motion pictures.
Actresses--Biography.--India
Motion picture actors and actresses--Biography.--India
Motion pictures--History.--India
Women in motion pictures.
Electronic Books.
PN1993 / .W368 2009