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Bollyworld : Popular Indian Cinema Through A Transnational Lens

Publisher:
Year:2005
Pages:343
ISBN:0761933212

Book DescriptionThis volume brings together a group of international scholars to analyze the globalized networks of Indian cinema. It provides a critique of a common scholarly tendency in the field of popular cinema of defining Indian films in terms of their modernity and desire for nationhood. Bollyworld argues that Indian cinema cannot be understood in terms of this national paradigm, and must be more properly described as a field of visual and cultural production that interlinks sites as diverse as the cosmopolitan city of Bombay, the provincial region of Maharashtra, and countries such as Nigeria, Germany, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The twelve essays track the intra-national and trans-national movements of Bollywood cinema.Divided into three sections, the first discusses ...

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Cyrus Ghani. My Favorite Films

Publisher:
Year:2004
Pages:728
ISBN:0934211868

Book DescriptionIn this panoramic guide by one of the world?s most knowledgeable movie enthusiasts, Cyrus Ghani reviews more than six hundred and fifty of the big screen?s finest offerings. An international lawyer and eminent historian, Ghani has lived on three continents and is fluent in several languages, affording him a uniquely broad perspective on cinema. His love affair with movies began, he says, at the age of eight and has lasted a lifetime. My Favorite Films is the result?the workof an avid fan, keenly insightful, highly informative, and happily free of the arcane terminology and analysis of academic film criticism. In these pages, Ghani moves from early silent classics like Buster Keaton?s The General and Charlie Chaplin?s City Lights to the films of Billy Wilder and John ...

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Gay Hendricks. Spiritual Cinema

Publisher:
Year:2005
Pages:169
ISBN:1401907024

Book DescriptionWould you like to discover a new world of movies that expands your mind, warms your hearts and stirs your soul? If so, this book is sure to become a valuable resource for you. Here you will find a treasure trove of films that inspire you and celebrate every aspect of the human spirit. Spiritual Cinema asks the big questions about life and living: Who are we? Why are we here? Where are we bound? and What can we become when we live at our highest level of potential? This book can lightyour path to hundreds of hours of inspiration and wisdom.

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Jeff Kinney. The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: How Greg Heffley Went Hollywood

Publisher:Puffin
Year:2012
Pages:218
ISBN:978-0-141-34450-8

Product Description Imagine all the Wimpy Kid laughs you've had from reading the diaries, all the best bits you talk about with your friends and all the cartoons of Greg Heffley you've had a go at drawing yourself... Now imagine it all - on screen! The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary goes behind the scenes to tell the story of Greg Heffley from the funniest cartoon character ever, to a real live person on the big screen. A full-colour diary complete with photographs, script pages, storyboard sketches, costume designs, and more hilarious Wimpy Kid drawings by Jeff Kinney. The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary is the perfect companion to the phenomenally bestselling series. About the Author The Diary of A Wimpy Kid series is an international bestseller and has now been made into two blockbuster films. The ...