The Geography of Color: Bombay Cinema in the 1960s

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This pioneering book explores the cultural resonance of the global 1960s through Bombay cinema as it transitioned from monochrome to color. For audiences used to black-and-white films, the novel surge of color enabled India to emerge on-screen as geographical space. Hill stations, forests, psychedelic nightclubs, historical m...