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.
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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.