Bollywood's India

Priya Joshi is associate professor of English at Temple University. She is the author of In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India, winner of the Modern Language Association's Prize for the Best First Book, the Sonya Rudikoff Prize for best first book in Victorian studies by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association, and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award. She is coeditor of The 1970s and Its Legacies in India's Cinemas.

Priya Joshi's work is a timely assessment of key films and periods in Bollywood's history. Its wide-ranging literary, theoretical, and sociocultural perspectives, which cut across literature, postcolonial studies, media, and cultural studies, will surely be taken up by other scholars as well as general readers. A fine piece of scholarship. -- Rajinder Dudrah, University of Manchester Lavishly illustrated... this volume would be an excellent course text for a semester on Bollywood... Highly recommended. Choice A lively, thoughtful writer, Joshi shows how Bollywood films have mirrored India's social, political and economic changes, and how western films have been influenced by Bollywood trends and motifs. -- Steven Rea The Philadelphia Inquirer Well-structured... Joshi's book perfectly captures the history of Bollywood cinema and its cultural impact for the newcomer and seasoned viewer alike. Film Matters

• List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Preface: The Social Work of Cinema 1. Bollywood's India 2. Cinema as Public Fantasy 3. Cinema as Family Romance 4. Bollywood, Bollylite Epilogue: Anthem for a New India Notes Filmography Bibliography Index