Orienting Hollywood A Century of Film Culture between Los Angeles and Bombay

With American cinema facing intense technological and financial challenges both at home and abroad, and with Indian media looking to globalize, there have been numerous high-profile institutional connections between Hollywood and Bombay cinema in the past few years. Many accounts have proclaimed Ind...

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Main Author: Govil, Nitin
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: New York NYU Press 2015
New York University Press
Edition:1
Series:Critical cultural communication
Subjects:
California
History
India
Influence
LAW
Los Angeles
Media & the Law
Media Studies
Motion picture industry
Motion picture industry > California > Los Angeles > History
Motion picture industry > India > Mumbai > History
Motion pictures
Motion pictures > India > Influence
Motion pictures > United States > Influence
Mumbai
Nonfiction
Psychology
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sociology
United States
ISBN:0814785875, 9780814785874, 0814764738, 9780814764732
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Summary:With American cinema facing intense technological and financial challenges both at home and abroad, and with Indian media looking to globalize, there have been numerous high-profile institutional connections between Hollywood and Bombay cinema in the past few years. Many accounts have proclaimed India's transformation in a relatively short period from a Hollywood outpost to a frontier of opportunity. Orienting Hollywoodmoves beyond the conventional popular wisdom that Hollywood and Bombay cinema have only recently become intertwined because of economic priorities, instead uncovering a longer history of exchange. Through archival research, interviews, industry sources, policy documents, and cultural criticism, Nitin Govil not only documents encounters between Hollywood and India but also shows how connections were imagined over a century of screen exchange. Employing a comparative framework, Govil details the history of influence, traces the nature of interoperability, and textures the contact between Hollywood and Bombay cinema by exploring both the reality and imagination of encounter.
Bibliography:Includes index
Electronic reproduction. New York: NYU Press, 2015. Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
ISBN:0814785875
9780814785874
0814764738
9780814764732
DOI:10.18574/9780814764732