"Filming the Gods" explores Indian cinema's portrayal of religion and the gods, from early film-makers' first forays onto the silent screen to the technicolor spectacles of modern Bollywood. Looking at the influential Hindi cinema of Mumbai, as well as at Islamic and other sources, Rachel Dwyer asks how the depiction of divinity and devotion in film has affected India's religious, political and sexual culture. Her exhilarating tale weaves from Indian cinema's founding nationalist impulses, where Hindi epics from the Mahabharata and Ramayana were devised in response to western Biblical films,...

Yash Chopra's career as a film director began in 1959, and he has been a producer since 1973. This study of the man and his work is based on interviews with Yash Chopra, his family, his stars, his colleagues, his contemporaries and also some of his major critics.

An invaluable introduction to 100 of the best classic, historically important and cultBollywood films Reflecting the work of key directors, major stars and important music directors and screenplay writers, the films covered include Mother India, Sholay, Junglee, Pyaasa and Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge.
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Now nearly 100 years old, Indian cinema is one of that country's most vibranty cultural products as well as being the world's most prolific, at it peak producing an estimated 800 films a year. Cinema India concentrates on the visual culture of Indian film.

If you are an absolute beginner or simply looking for a solid foundation to your language studies for school, work or travel, this engaging course will help get you on your way to speaking, reading and understanding Gujarati in no time.
Through culture notes, clear language presentations, and extensive practice and review, you will pick up the Gujarati you need to communicate naturally in everyday situations - from shopping and travelling to food and daily life.
Engaging with our interactive Discovery Method, you?ll absorb language rules faster, remember what you learn easily, and put...

Modern Indian studies have recently become a site for new, creative, and thought-provoking debates extending over a broad canvas of crucial issues. As a result of socio-political transformations, certain concepts such as ahimsa, caste, darshan, and race have taken on different meanings.Bringing together ideas, issues, and debates salient to modern Indian studies, this volume charts the social, cultural, political, and economic processes at work in the Indian subcontinent. Authored by internationally recognized experts, this volume comprises over one hundred individual...

Modern Indian studies have become a site for new, creative, and thought-provoking debates extending over a broad canvas of crucial issues. As a result of socio-political transformations, certain conceptsasuch as Ahimsa, Caste, Darshan, and Raceahave taken on different meanings.
Bringing together ideas, issues, and debates salient to modern Indian studies, this volume charts out the social, cultural, political, and economic processes at work in the subcontinent. Authored by internationally recognized experts, this work consists of over one hundred individual entries on concepts central to...