Censorship and sexuality in Bombay cinema
By: Monika Mehta
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780292726925; 9780292737853
Subjects: Motion pictures; Sex in motion pictures; Sex role in motion pictures; Censorship; History
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Minnesota, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginning; title: Revisiting the history of film censorship; title: Close-up: the Central Board of Film Certification; title: The first sex-education film: a classification conundrum; title: Satyam shivam sundaram: (im)proper suturing of sound, scar, and stardom; title: An anomalous dilemma: to ban or to certify the self-sacrificial wife in Pati parmeshwar; title: Tracking the twists and turns in the Khalnayak; title: Debates on censorship; title: Dilwale dulhania le jayenge: certifying a "family love" story; title: From censorship to selections.