From Aan to Lagaan and Beyond: A Guide to the Study of Indian Cinema

This authoritative and accessible guide is written specifically to help students understand the complexities and intricacies of Indian cinema. It covers the vast range of the cinemas of India, plus the meteoric rise of Bollywood, and discusses the key theoretical approaches to the analysis of films, the cinema audience and audience segmentation.The book describes how an Indian movie is made and explains the technology entailed. All the major issues are discussed: the relationship between ca...