Gehlawat, Ajay.

Reframing Bollywood : theories of popular Hindi cinema / Ajay Gehlawat. - 1st ed. - New Delhi, India : SAGE Publications, 2010. - xxiv, 165 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Introduction : reframing Bollywood -- Bollywood and its implied viewers -- The Bollywood song and dance, or making a culinary theatre from dung-cakes and dust -- Can the Bollywood film speak to the subaltern? -- Ho naa ho : the emergence of a homosexual subtext in Bollywood -- Usage problem : simulation and hyper-assimilation in the (crossover) Bollywood film -- Conclusion : travelling Bollywood.

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Motion pictures--India.
Motion pictures--Social aspects--India.

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