Wanted cultured ladies only! : female stardom and cinema in India, 1930s-1950s /
Majumdar, Neepa,1961-
Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-247) and index.
Translocating : Hollywood stardom in India -- The split discourse of Indian stardom -- The morality and machinery of stardom -- Real and imagined stars -- Spectatorial desires and the hierarchies of stardom -- Monopoly, frontality, and doubling in postwar Bombay cinema -- Nargis and the double space of female desire in Anhonee -- The embodied voice : song sequences and stardom in Bombay cinema.
Motion pictures
Motion picture actors and actresses
Actresses
Women in motion pictures.