Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s
ISBN: 9780252034329 | 0252034325
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
Pub. Date: 1/15/2010
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Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!maps out the early culture of cinema stardom in India from its emergence in the silent era to the decade after Indian independence in the mid-twentieth century. Neepa Majumdar combines readings of specific films and stars with an analysis of the historical and cultural configurations that gave rise to distinctly Indian notions of celebrity. She argues that discussions of early cinematic stardom in India must be placed in the context of the general legitimizing discourse of colonial "improvement" that marked other civ... MORE
| List of Illustrations | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction: Translocating Hollywood Stardom in India | p. I |
| "India Has No Stars" | |
| The Split Discourse of Indian Stardom | p. 17 |
| The Morality and Machinery of Stardom | p. 50 |
| Real and Imagined Stars | p. 71 |
| Spectatorial Desires and the Hierarchies of Stardom | p. 93 |
| "This Stardom Racket" | ... MORE|
| Monopoly Frontality, and Doubling in Postwar Bombay Cinema | p. 125 |
| Nargis and the Double Space of Female Desire in Anhonee | p. 150 |
| The Embodied Voice: Song Sequences and Stardom in Bombay Cinema | p. 173 |
| Notes | p. 203 |
| Works Cited | p. 235 |
| Index | p. 249 |
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Neepa Majumdar is an associate professor of English and film at the University of Pittsburgh.
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