Free Download Rosie Thomas, "Bombay Before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1438456751 | PDF | pages: 347 | 12.0 mb
Bombay before Bollywood offers a fresh, alternative look at the history of Indian cinema. Avoiding the conventional focus on India’s social and mythological films, Rosie Thomas examines the subaltern genres of the "magic and fighting films"-the fantasy, costume, and stunt films popular in the decades before and immediately after independence. She explores the influence of this other cinema on the big-budget masala films of the 1970s and 1980s, before "Bollywood" erupted onto the world stage in the mid-1990s.