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Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief
Inside the World of Indian Moviemaking
Stephen Alter
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9780156030847 Trade Paperback
0156030845
$15.00
272pages
Available
Trim Size:
5-5/16 x 8
Copyright Year:
2007
Territory:
US, C, O (-EU)
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Bollywood movies are glorious, colorful spectacles of romance, action, drama, song, and dance. The biggest film industry in the world, Bollywood puts out some nine hundred movies a year, which are watched by passionate fans around the globe.
Stephen Alter—a writer who grew up in India and has inside access to Bollywood—acts as translator and tour guide in this firsthand look into the world of Bombay films. Following the making of a Bollywood version of Othello, he explores the enormous popularity of Hindi movies and reveals the actors, directors, musicians, and feats of artifice that make them so compelling and unique. From the blessing ceremony performed each time a movie starts shooting to the secrets behind the song- and-dance extravaganzas, Fantasies of a Bollywood Love-Thief is a beguiling introduction to the rituals and culture of a moviemaking industry so similar to and yet utterly different from our own.
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STEPHEN ALTER is the author of seven books of fiction and four books of nonfiction. As a writer-in-residence at MIT, he has received both a Guggenheim and a Fulbright fellowship. He lives and works in India.
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Performing Arts- Film/General
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Academic Disciplines & Course Studies |
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Fine & Applied Arts- Performing Arts-General
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Serial/Audio/Performance/UK/Translation: Jill Grinberg Literary Management
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Harvest Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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