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Table of Contents
1. Amboo: Enacting Speed and Risk-Film Genre, Female Performance and the Indian Stunt Film; Anupama Kapse.- 2. K.L. Saigal: From Street Singer to Tansen; Neepa Majumdar.- 3. The Lady and the Tramp: The Star Couple of Raj Kapoor and Nargis; Rachel Dwyer.- 4. Johnny Walker: Every Man's Comic Star; Radha Dayal.- 5. Dharmendra: A Critical Study of the Eclipse of a Classical Hindi Film Star; Anustup Basu.- 6. From Son of India to Teen King: Sajid Khan and Transnational Stardom; Meenasarani Murugun.- 7. Goodbye Neverland: Child Star Rattan Kumar and the Move to Pakistan; Salma Siddique.- 8. Star's 'Dust': Miss Kumari and the Fossilized Memory of the 'First Malayalam Female Star'; Darshana Sreedhar.- 9. The Chin Chin Chu Girl: Helen and the Scandalous Other of Popular Hindi Cinema; Sudesh Mishra.- 10. 'She's Everything that's Unpardonable': Hema Malini, Dream Girl on a Motorbike; Rosie Thomas.- 11. Rajkumar and Kannada Cinema; M K Raghavendra.- 12. 'The Queen of Comedy': The Voice and Comic Performances of Sridevi in Popular Hindi Film; Nandana Bose.- 13. Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha: Stardom and Scandal before and after Silsila (1980); Michael Lawrence.- 14. The Feudal Lord Reincarnate: Mohanlal and the Politics of Masculinity in Malayalam Cinema; Meena T. Pillai.- 15. 'The B Grade King': Mithun Chakraborty and the Politics of Cult Stardom, Iain Robert Smith.- 16. The Other Street Singer: Kanan Devi, the Unsung Co-star of Barua and Saigal; Ranita Chatterjee.- 17. The Irrepressible Badness of Salman Khan; Shohini Ghosh.- 18. Harbhajan Maan: the Transnational Migrant Success Story of Punjabi Cinema; Harjant S. Gill.- 19. 'SRK Starring as SRK'-King Khan's Performance Style: Audience Expectations and the Emergence of Self-Parody; Charlie Henniker.
Product details
Published | 28 May 2020 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 264 |
ISBN | 9781844578559 |
Imprint | British Film Institute |
Illustrations | Contains b/w images |
Dimensions | 246 x 189 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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In this remarkable exploration of Indian film stardom through embodied histories and social practices, rich local and regional details are woven into complex transnational circulations. This study reaffirms the star's place in the firmament of our devotion, but brings them back to earth as well.
Nitin Govil, Associate Professor, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, USA.