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Joshi, Priya.
Bollywood’s India : a public fantasy / Priya Joshi.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-231-16960-8 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-231-16961-5 (pbk : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-231-53907-4 (ebook)
1. India—In motion pictures. 2. Motion pictures—India—History—20th century. 3. Motion pictures—United States—History—20th century. I. Title
PN1993.5.I8J673 2015
791.43'0954—dc23
2014042100
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The dedication on page v is from “yes is a pleasant country.” Copyright 1944, © 1972, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust, from Complete Poems: 1904–1962 by e. e. cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Corporation.
The epigraphs on page vii are from Talking Films: Conversations on Hindi Cinema with Javed Akhtar, as recorded by Nasreen Munni Kabir (New Delhi: Oxford UP, 1999), 35; and from Sudhir Kakar, Intimate Relations: Exploring Indian Sexuality (New Delhi: Penguin, 1988), 27.