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Bollywood Nights

Author : Shobhaa De
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780451221940
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Bollywood Nights written by Shobhaa De and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bollywood is no place for a vulnerable, small-town girl like Aasha Rani. But that doesn't stop her mother from pushing her into a world of exploitation and bedroom casting calls. Aasha has no choice but to thrive-despite the vicious circles of starlets, pimps, and celebrities who want to see her meet her end. But the day she meets Bollywood's leading man, everything she's worked so hard for is jeopardized. Because she may be falling for Akshay Arora-and there's no room for love in a business where it's the stranger under your sheets holding the key to your success. With her innocence stolen and nowhere else to turn, Aasha knows her downfall could come as quickly as her rise to fame. And letting herself love might just be the most fatal career move of her life...

Bollywood in Britain

Author : Lucia Krämer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501307584
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Bollywood in Britain written by Lucia Krämer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bollywood in Britain provides the most extensive survey to date of the various manifestations and facets of the Bollywood phenomenon in Britain. The book analyzes the role of Hindi films in the British film market, it shows how audiences engage with Bollywood cinema and it discusses the ways the image of Bollywood in Britain has been shaped. In contrast to most of the existing books on the subject, which tend to approach Bollywood as something that is made by Asians for Asians, the book also focuses on how Bollywood has been adapted for non-Asian Britons. An analysis of Bollywood as an unofficial brand is combined with in-depth readings of texts like film reviews, the TV show Bollywood Star (2004) and novels and plays with references to the Bombay film industry. On this basis Bollywood in Britain demonstrates that the presentation of Bollywood for British mainstream culture oscillates between moments of approximation and distancing, with a clear dominance of the latter. Despite its alleged transculturality, Bollywood in Britain thus emerges as a phenomenon of difference, distance and Othering.

Opening Night

Author : Diksha Basu
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9350295148
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Opening Night written by Diksha Basu and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Naiya Kapur, a Princeton University graduate who comes to Mumbai to chase the big Indian dream - Bollywood. Naiya isn't searching for her soulmate, or hoping to find her roots in the India her parents once knew; she is searching for fame, fortune and fun in the new India. We follow Naiya as she navigates the labyrinthine lanes of Mumbai and Bollywood, where identities are fluid and murky - and where lines are meant to be crossed. In the middle of scuttling between auditions and parties of every hue, Naiya enters into a potentially 'happily ever after' relationship - that turns out to be an 'it's complicated' one - with a neurotic ex-model-turned-film producer. As she battles her demons and tries to deal with her increasingly tangled life, the stage is set for high drama, and her Opening Night.

Inter-Asia in Motion

Author : Emily Wilcox
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100096521X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Inter-Asia in Motion written by Emily Wilcox and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies. The chapters in this volume cover a wide range of dance works, artists, genres, and media, from Kathak to K-pop flash mob dance, from Cold War diplomacy to avant-garde dance collaborations, and from festival dance to dance on screen. Working against the Western-centric category of “Asian dance” and Western-centric theorizations of intercultural performance that foreground “East-West” relationships, each contribution shows how dances in Asia make one another as their key aesthetic references beyond Eurocentric influences, as well as how inter-Asia relations emerge from cultural, geographical, and aesthetic diversity within the region. This book is the first of its kind in both cultural studies and dance studies. It will contribute greatly to readers’ understanding of how performance shapes and transforms the cultural and political dynamics of inter-Asia, with a focus on dance circulations in and across East, South, and Southeast Asia. Inter-Asia in Motion: Dance as Method will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Dance Studies, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, International Relations and Politics, History, and Sociology. The chapters included in this book were originally published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.

The Hundred-Foot Journey

Author : Richard C. Morais
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459612930
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Hundred-Foot Journey written by Richard C. Morais and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have never experienced that most subtle of senses - smell - captured so well in print. The aroma of fine cooking just floats off the pages. Don't read this book if you're hungry. You might eat it.' - Simon Beaufoy, Oscar-Award-winning screenwriter, Slumdog Millionaire Abbas Haji is the proud owner of a modest family restaurant in Mumbai. But when tragedy strikes, Abbas propels his boisterous family into a picaresque journey across Europe, finally settling in the remote French village of Lumiere, where he establishes an Indian restaurant, Maison Mumbai. Much to the horror of their neighbour, a famous chef named Madame Mallory, the Indian establishment opposite her own begins to garner a following. Little does she know that the young Hassan, son of Abbas, has discovered French cuisine and has vowed to become a great French chef. Hassan is a natural whose talents far outweigh Mme. Mallory, but the tough old Frenchwoman will not brook defeat. Thus ensues an entertaining culinary war pitting Hassan's Mumbai-toughened father against the imperious Mme. Mallory, leading the young Hassan to greatness and his true destiny. This vivid, hilarious and charming novel - about how just a small distance of a hundred feet can represent the gulf between different cultures, different people, their tastes and their destinies - is simply bursting with eccentric characters, delicious flavours and high emotion. 'Outstanding! I wished it went on for another three hundred pages.' - Anthony Bourdain

Wanderlust

Author : Alice Hoffman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451667949
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Wanderlust written by Alice Hoffman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wanderlust: A Book Club Sampler from Simon & Schuster is your boarding pass to the beautiful, the mysterious, and the unknown. This book club sampler was created to pay homage to a book’s unique ability to transport your imagination around the world, taking you on journeys across distance and time. Whether you’re in the mood for a historical love story set on a sheep station in rural Australia or an illuminating memoir of life in the war-torn Middle East, these are books you and your reading group won’t want to miss: Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Annia Ciezadlo, Wildflower Hill by Kimberley Freeman, The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman, Amaryllis in Blueberry by Christina Meldrum, The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais, The Distant Hours by Kate Morton, This Burns My Heart by Samuel Park, An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy. Each excerpt in Wanderlust is accompanied by a collection of bonus materials intended to enrich your reading experience, including discussion questions, suggestions for enhancing your book club meeting, and author interviews. In the spirit of looking to the horizon, we also asked each author featured in this sampler one question: “What is your favorite travel memory?” Their answers are fittingly diverse—from Christina Meldrum’s summers spent at a family cottage in Lake Margrethe, Michigan, to Alice Hoffman’s inspirational first trip to Masada, the setting of her epic new novel The Dovekeepers. Anuradha Roy, the author of An Atlas of Impossible Longing, describes the lure of armchair travel best: “All readers…carry within themselves sediments of the places they have traveled to in books, the people they’ve met on the way. Therefore the strange déjà vu is when you land in a foreign country and wonder if you’ve been there before.” So, sit back, relax, and get ready for the trip of a lifetime. Bon Voyage!

Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora

Author : Radha Sarma Hegde
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317373561
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora written by Radha Sarma Hegde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The geographical diversity of the Indian diaspora has been shaped against the backdrop of the historical forces of colonialism, nationalism and neoliberal globalization. In each of these global moments, the demand for Indian workers has created the multiple global pathways of the Indian diasporas. The Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora introduces readers to the contexts and histories that constitute the Indian diaspora. It brings together scholars from different parts of the globe, representing various disciplines, and covers extensive spatial and temporal terrain. Contributors draw from a variety of archives and intellectual perspectives in order to map the narratives of the Indian diaspora. The topics covered range from the history of diasporic communities, activism, identity, gender, politics, labour, policy, violence, performance, literature and branding. The handbook analyses a wide array of issues and debates and is organised in six parts: • Histories and trajectories • Diaspora and infrastructures • Cultural dynamics • Representation and identity • Politics of belonging • Networked subjectivities and transnationalism. Providing a comprehensive analysis of the diverse social, cultural and economic contexts that frame diasporic practices, this key reference work will reinvigorate discussions about the Indian diaspora, its global presence and trajectories. It will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and students interested in studying South Asia in general and the Indian diaspora in particular.

Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation

Author : Pascal Nicklas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110272237
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation written by Pascal Nicklas and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hamlet” by Olivier, Kaurismäki or Shepard and “Pride and Prejudice” in its many adaptations show the virulence of these texts and the importance of aesthetic recycling for the formation of cultural identity and diversity. Adaptation has always been a standard literary and cultural strategy, and can be regarded as the dominant means of production in the cultural industries today. Focusing on a variety of aspects such as artistic strategies and genre, but also marketing and cultural politics, this volume takes a critical look at ways of adapting and appropriating cultural texts across epochs and cultures in literature, film and the arts.

Luxury Indian Fashion

Author : Tereza Kuldova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474220932
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Luxury Indian Fashion written by Tereza Kuldova and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary Indian luxury aesthetic. Tracking luxury Indian fashion from its production in village craft workshops via upmarket design studios to fashion soirées, Kuldova investigates the Indian luxury fashion market's dependence on the production of thousands of artisans all over India, revealing a complex system of hierarchies and exploitation. In recent years, contemporary Indian design has dismissed the influence of the West and has focused on the opulent heritage luxury of the maharajas, Gulf monarchies and the Mughal Empire. Luxury Indian Fashion argues that the desire for a luxury aesthetic has become a significant force in the attempt to define contemporary Indian society. From the cultivation of erotic capital in businesswomen's dress to a discussion of masculinity and muscular neo-royals to staged designer funerals, Luxury Indian Fashion analyzes the production, consumption and aesthetics of luxury and power in India. Luxury Indian Fashion is essential reading for students of fashion history and theory, anthropology and visual culture.

The Heart of India

Author : Shobhaa De
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 818475423X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Heart of India written by Shobhaa De and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aasha Rani, Bombay’s no. 1 heroine, has everything she wants—fame, money, success. All except for Akshay Arora, the film star she is desperately in love with. This is her story—from her days as a vulnerable small-town girl, pushed by her ambitious mother into sleeping her way to the top, to getting her first break from Kishenbhai, the small-time distributor who never stops loving her, to sealing her career under the patronage of the deadly Bombay don Sheth Amirchand. Glittering, glamorous and full of unforgettable characters, Starry Nights is the ultimate Bollywood novel.

Rise of the Soul-Transferors

Author : Aaditya Vardhan
Publisher : Aaditya Vardhan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rise of the Soul-Transferors written by Aaditya Vardhan and published by Aaditya Vardhan. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twenty-four-year-old Aditi Mukherjee realizes that through deep meditation she is able to transfer her soul into the body of any other person in her proximity for a limited amount of time. Her friends Nura and Cyrus help her to use her abilities to eliminate crime and corruption. Along the way she also has to deal with moral and ethical questions regarding the use of her powers. Meanwhile, in Mumbai, Robin Pinto’s car collides with another vehicle. After the collision Robin finds himself in the body of a nearby beggar and discovers the corpses of his family and himself near the crashed car. Days later, he gets reason to believe that the collision was no accident. He must find out the one responsible for his family’s death while dealing with the curse of constantly switching from the body of one person to another, with no body of his own. Millennia before these events Shri Adi Shankaracharya, learns to exercise similar soul-transfer powers. But what connects these three?

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South Asia : the Indian subcontinent

Author : Bruno Nettl
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780824049461
Total Pages : 1126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South Asia : the Indian subcontinent written by Bruno Nettl and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

India Booms

Author : John Farndon
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0753520745
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book India Booms written by John Farndon and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient birthplace of some of the world's major religions and now a modern nuclear power, India is experiencing spectacular economic growth. In twenty-five years its population will overtake that of China, making it one of the most populous and rapidly-developing countries in the world. We all need to know more about this intriguing country. John Farndon explores the changing face of modern-day India and its fundamental contradictions. The country is leading the world in cutting edge technology and research, but it is also home to 40 per cent of the world's malnourished children. It is a liberal democracy, yet its political processes are influenced by some of the most conservative religious ideas in the world. The booming economy is at times both global and archaic. Getting to the heart of these inconsistencies, Farndon gives a fascinating insight into the country as it is now and as it will be in the future, and reveals how the changes in India will affect us all.

Bollywood Nights

Author : Shobhaa De
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101211172
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Bollywood Nights written by Shobhaa De and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bollywood is no place for a vulnerable, small-town girl like Aasha Rani. But that doesn't stop her mother from pushing her into a world of exploitation and bedroom casting calls. Aasha has no choice but to thrive-despite the vicious circles of starlets, pimps, and celebrities who want to see her meet her end. But the day she meets Bollywood's leading man, everything she's worked so hard for is jeopardized. Because she may be falling for Akshay Arora-and there's no room for love in a business where it's the stranger under your sheets holding the key to your success. With her innocence stolen and nowhere else to turn, Aasha knows her downfall could come as quickly as her rise to fame. And letting herself love might just be the most fatal career move of her life...

The Fluid Frame in Cinema

Author : Pradipta Mukherjee
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152757377X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Fluid Frame in Cinema written by Pradipta Mukherjee and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a passionate rendezvous with cinema, the most collaborative of art forms. The essays here explore the possibilities offered by a close reading of cinema that keeps cultural contexts and their socio-historical roots firmly in sight. This collection does not consider the “frame”, that oft-referenced basic unit of vision in films, as a limiting structure. Rather, it brings into purview what is left out. Divided into three sections, the essays look firstly at Indian cinema, both Bollywood and regional films, tracing the journey of Indian cinema from the periphery to the center. The second section focuses on Adaptation Studies and takes an unorthodox look at classic adaptations of literature. The final section is a reappraisal of directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick. The essays propose that, even though the film as an artwork does not change fundamentally over time, it still strikes a contemporary critical gaze differently.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

Author : Alison Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351544381
Total Pages : 1126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music written by Alison Arnold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, sixty-eight of the world's leading authorities explore and describe the wide range of musics of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Nepal and Afghanistan. Important information about history, religion, dance, theater, the visual arts and philosophy as well as their relationship to music is highlighted in seventy-six in-depth articles.

Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination

Author : Stephanos Stephanides
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900430066X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination written by Stephanos Stephanides and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection addresses broad questions of ethics and aesthetics in the framework of vernacular cosmopolitanism. With a common anthropological focus, the essays map literary and artistic practices involving cross-cultural transactions shaped by social forces, institutions, and the multiple mediations of the imagination. Some essays are based on community-based fieldwork, while all encompass an affective immersion in the places we inhabit, and the claims these make on the body’s intelligibility. The authors consider the role of artists, writers, and literary scholars as cultural actors in a variety of settings, grassroots, regional, trans-regional, and global. Topics include: the role of social and cultural activism; the problematic dimensions of national belonging; the plurality of knowledge-systems and inter-language environ-mental learning in South Africa; the vernacular imagination in Papua New Guinea Anglophone fiction; pulp fiction and chick lit in India; transformative artistic motifs of Australia’s nomadic Tiwi community; life writing as a reconfiguring of postcolonial or cosmopolitan paradigms; southern African supernatural belief-systems and the malign magic of the global economy; Canadian First Nations literature read against the struggle for self-determination by India’s castes and scheduled tribes; feral animals in relation to the indigenous exotic; and the imbrication of the vernacular, national, colonial, and cosmopolitan in perceptions of homecoming in the eastern Mediterranean. The collection as a whole thus provides manifestations of poesis in relation to theory and praxis and articulates perspectives that expand, challenge, strengthen, and renew the potential for growth in contemporary world literature and culture.