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World Film Locations: Mumbai
About this book
Fascinating, incommensurable and chaotic, Mumbai is a megalopolis of dramatic diversity and heartbreaking extremes, where immense wealth is just steps away from the searing poverty of its huge slums. The home of Bollywood, Mumbai is also the epicentre of India's film industry and its foremost film location. Through the lens of Mumbai's manifold cinematic representations, World Film Locations: Mumbai explores the sheer complexity of this incomparable city.
This volume comprises insightful essays and beautifully illustrated scene analyses by leading scholars and film critics who explore the ways filmmakers from India and abroad have represented Mumbai's astonishing urban and human landscape. Their contributions show how movies have created in the imaginations of billions of spectators the vivid image of a city that constantly tempts people to escape their dreary existence and offers them a chance to fulfil their dreams. The first book to focus on cinematic representations of what is perhaps the world's most-filmed city, World Film Locations: Mumbai will be necessary reading for scholars and film buffs alike.
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Table of contents
- Frontcover
- Copyright
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Mumbai: City of the Imagination
- Bollywood: The Thousand Flavours of the Cinema of Mumbai
- Victoria Terminus: Gateway of India’s Dreams
- Counter-Bollywood: Realist Fables from the City of Dreams
- Mumbai Noir: An Uncanny Present
- Bombay, Post 6 December 1992: Space and Time of Communalism
- Bollywood Dynasties: Star Power and Lineage in Mumbai’s Film Aristocracy
- Resources
- Contributors
- Filmography