{"product_id":"bollywoods-india-priya-joshi-9780231169615","title":"Bollywood's India: A Public Fantasy","description":"\u003cp\u003eBollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and fabricate public fantasies of what constitutes \"India.\" Written by an award-winning scholar of popular culture and postcolonial modernity, \u003ci\u003eBollywood's India\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes the role of the cinema's most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern India. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith dazzling interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi provides an interdisciplinary account of popular cinema as a space that filters politics and modernity for its viewers. Themes such as crime and punishment, family and individuality, vigilante and community capture the diffuse aspirations of an evolving nation. Summoning India's tumultuous 1970s as an interpretive lens, Joshi reveals the cinema's social work across decades that saw the decline of studios, the rise of the multi-starrer genre, and the arrival of corporate capital and new media platforms. In elegantly crafted studies of iconic and less familiar films, including \u003ci\u003eAwara\u003c\/i\u003e (1951), \u003ci\u003eAb Dilli Dur Nahin\u003c\/i\u003e (1957), \u003ci\u003eDeewaar\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), \u003ci\u003eSholay\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), \u003ci\u003eDil Se\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), \u003ci\u003eA Wednesday\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and \u003ci\u003e3 Idiots\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), Joshi powerfully conveys the pleasures and politics of Bollywood blockbusters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Priya Joshi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231169612\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231169615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2015","brand":"Priya Joshi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056690721023,"sku":"9780231169615","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_062ea398-f462-470a-bb53-3fca0c0599a5.jpg?v=1685042721","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bollywoods-india-priya-joshi-9780231169615","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}