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January 21, 2024

Producing Bollywood Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry

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Free Download Producing Bollywood: Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry By Tejaswini Ganti
2012 | 440 Pages | ISBN: 0822352028 | PDF | 3 MB
Producing Bollywood offers an unprecedented look inside the social and professional worlds of the Mumbai-based Hindi film industry and explains how it became "Bollywood," the global film phenomenon and potent symbol of India as a rising economic powerhouse. In this rich and entertaining ethnography Tejaswini Ganti examines the changes in Hindi film production from the 1990s until 2010, locating them in Hindi filmmakers’ efforts to accrue symbolic capital, social respectability, and professional distinction, and to manage the commercial uncertainties of filmmaking. These efforts have been enabled by the neoliberal restructuring of the Indian state and economy since 1991. This restructuring has dramatically altered the country’s media landscape, which quickly expanded to include satellite television and multiplex theaters. Ganti contends that the Hindi film industry’s metamorphosis into Bollywood would not have been possible without the rise of neoliberal economic ideals in India. By describing dramatic transformations in the Hindi film industry’s production culture, daily practices, and filmmaking ideologies during a decade of tremendous social and economic change in India, Ganti offers valuable new insights into the effects of neoliberalism on cultural production in a postcolonial setting.

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January 17, 2024

Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema

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Free Download Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema By Anna Morcom
2007 | 281 Pages | ISBN: 0754651983 | PDF | 7 MB
Since their beginnings in the 1930s, Hindi films and film songs have dominated Indian public culture in India, and have also made their presence felt strongly in many global contexts. Hindi film songs have been described on the one hand as highly standardized and on the other as highly eclectic. Anna Morcom addresses many of the paradoxes eccentricities and myths of not just Hindi film songs but also of Hindi cinema by analysing film songs in cinematic context. While the presence of songs in Hindi films is commonly dismissed as ‘purely commercial’, this book demonstrates that in terms of the production process, musical style, and commercial life, it is most powerfully the parent film that shapes and defines the film songs and their success rather than the other way round. While they constitute India’s still foremost genre of popular music, film songs are also situational, dramatic sequences, inherently multi-media in style and conception. This book is uniquely grounded in detailed musical and visual analysis of Hindi film songs, song sequences and films as well as a wealth of ethnographic material from the Hindi film and music industries. Its findings lead to highly novel ways of viewing Hindi film songs, their key role in Hindi cinema, and how this affects their wider life in India and across the globe. It will be indispensable to scholars seeking to understand both Hindi film songs and Hindi cinema. It also forms a major contribution to popular music, popular culture, film music studies and ethnomusicology, tackling pertinent issues of cultural production, (multi-)media, and the cross-cultural use of music in Hindi cinema. The book caters for both music specialists as well as a wider audience.

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December 29, 2023

Hindi Teacher for English Speaking People

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Free Download Acharya Ratnakar, "Hindi Teacher for English Speaking People"
English | 2015 | pages: 131 | ISBN: 8173155364 | PDF | 0,6 mb
Language: English with Roman TransliterationPages: 523From the JacketHindi is one of the world’s main languages, with over 650 million speakers in India, an millions more on every continent. These are many primers that teach children who can already speak Hindi-how to read and write their language. As the title Hindi Teacher or English Speaking People suggests. Dr. Ratnakar Narale ha written this book with a different audience in mind: English speakers of all ages who want to learn Hindi from scratch. This audience includes many kinds of people: the inhabitants of non-Hindi-speaking parts of India: Canadians. Americans, and West Indians whose ancestors came from India, but whose first language is English.This logically arranged book is filled with virtually thousand of examples, and each dialogue is designed with the view of its practical value for the targeted people. Along the way. Hundreds of new words and the frequent exercises let the

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