TY - GEN T1 - Unruly cinema : history, politics, and Bollywood A1 - Mehta, Rini Bhattacharya LA - English PP - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press YR - 2020 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1149185439 AB - "Between 1931 and 2000, India's popular cinema steadily overcame Hollywood domination. Bollywood, the film industry centered in Mumbai, became nothing less than a global cultural juggernaut. But Bollywood is merely one part of the country's prolific, multilingual cinema. Unruly Cinema looks at the complex series of events that allowed the entire Indian film industry to defy attempts to control, reform, and refine it in the twentieth century and beyond. Rini Bhattacharya Mehta considers four aspects of Indian cinema's complicated history. She begins with the industry's surprising, market-driven triumph over imports from Hollywood and elsewhere in the 1930s. From there she explores how the nationalist social melodrama outwitted the government with its 1950s cinematic lyrical manifestoes. In the 1970s, an action cinema centered on the angry young male co-opted the voice of the oppressed. Finally, Mehta examines Indian film's discovery of the global neoliberal aesthetic that encouraged the emergence of Bollywood"-- OP - 233 CN - PN1993.5.I8 M415 2020 SN - 9780252052002 SN - 0252052005 SN - 9780252043123 SN - 9780252084997 KW - Motion pictures : India : History : 20th century. KW - Motion pictures : Political aspects : India : History. KW - Cinéma : Inde : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Cinéma : Aspect politique : Inde : Histoire. KW - PERFORMING ARTS / General KW - Motion pictures KW - Motion pictures : Political aspects KW - India KW - 1900-1999 KW - Electronic books. KW - History ER -