Tejaswini Ganti

Producing Bollywood: Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry

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Produktbeschreibung

Producing Bollywood is an in-depth ethnography of the Bombay-based Hindi film industry, more popularly known as Bollywood. Taking readers inside this hugely popular global industry, Tejaswini Ganti focuses on the social world and professional practices of well-known Hindi filmmakers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9780822352136
• ISBN-10: 0822352133
• Artikelnr.: 34163142

Autorenporträt

Tejaswini Ganti is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She is the author of Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. How the Hindi Film Industry Became "Bollywood" 1
Part 1. The Social Status of Films and Filmmakers
1. From Vice to Virtue: The State and Filmmaking in India 41
2. From Slumdogs to Millionaires: The Gentrification of Hindi Cinema 77
3. Casting Respectability 119
Part 2. The Practices and Processes of Film Production
4. A Day in the Life of a Hindi Film Set 155
5. The Structure, Organization, and Social Relations of the Hindi Film
Industry 175
6. Sentiments of Disdain and Practices of Distinction: The Work Culture of
the Hindi Film Industry 215
7. Risky Business: Managing Uncertainty in the Hindi Film Industry 243
Part 3. Discourses and Practices of Audience-Making
8. Pleasing Both Aunties and Servants: The Hindi Film Industry and Its
Audience Imaginaries 281
9. The Fear of Large Numbers: The Gentrification of Audience Imaginaries
315
Epilogue: My Name Is Bollywood 359
Notes 367
Bibliography 401
Index 419