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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Contents
Preface
List of illustrations
1 The political popular
The big bang theory of Indian cinema
The many industries of cinema
Colonial misreadings
Cinematic fakes and the credulous Indian
Censorship
The economy of swadeshi
Gul-e-Bakavali and the political popular
A century on
2 Late colonial India
No takers for empire
Colonial ambitions for the cinema
Financiers and frontmen
Lahore cinema: the Anarkali effect
The example of reform_ Bombay Talkies
The ‘signature style’
The Second World War, and arrival of realism
Realism to melodrama
3 Partition and the ‘all-India’ film
A difficult birth
Bombay after the Second World War
The star parade begins
Film music
The financier mode
The ‘all-India film’
The independent auteur
4 The new cinemas
The cinema secedes
Regional states, regional nations
The regional new cinema
Films of ‘good standard’
1975: Deewar/The Wall
Making peace
5 Bollywood
Amitabh in Piccadilly and Rajnikant in Tokyo
The word Bollywood: a ‘remix’
The arrest
The disaster
‘Digital Dawn’
Plus ça change …
Ghostly presences, and Bollywood at Selfridges
Afterword
References
Further reading
Index
Social media
Online Catalogue
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