Leave Disco Dancer Alone! Indian Cinema and Soviet Moviegoing after Stalin
By: Sudha Rajagopalan
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In this important new book, Sudha Rajagopalan explores the consumption of Indian popular cinema in post-Stalinist Soviet society. In doing so, she highlights the enthusiastic response Indian popular films and their stars received from the Soviet audience, as well as the discursive and institutional context in which this consumption occurred.The book is complented by contemporary press and archival photos which capture the rapturous reception given to actors like Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Shashi kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan. This engaging book is a must read not only for students and scholars of film history and cultural studies, but every such lay reader who has grown up on a regular diet of popular Indian cinema.
Publication Date:
01/01/2015
Number of Pages::
100
Binding:
Paper Back
ISBN:
9788190618601
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Publisher Date:
01/01/2015
Number of Pages::
100
Binding:
Paper Back
ISBN:
9788190618601
In this important new book, Sudha Rajagopalan explores the consumption of Indian popular cinema in post-Stalinist Soviet society. In doing so, she highlights the enthusiastic response Indian popular films and their stars received from the Soviet audience, as well as the discursive and institutional context in which this consumption occurred.The book is complented by contemporary press and archival photos which capture the rapturous reception given to actors like Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Shashi kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan. This engaging book is a must read not only for students and scholars of film history and cultural studies, but every such lay reader who has grown up on a regular diet of popular Indian cinema.
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