Sirens of Modernity

World Cinema via Bombay

Samhita Sunya

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University of California Press
26 July 2022

History of Art & Design Styles; Films, movies & cinema; Film theory & criticism; Dance & Performing arts; Asian history; Ethnic studies

Series: Cinema Cultures in Contact

By the 1960s, Hindi-language films from Bombay were in high demand not only for domestic and diasporic audiences but also for sizeable non-diasporic audiences across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian Ocean world. Often confounding critics who painted the song-dance films as noisy and nonsensical. if not dangerously seductive and utterly vulgar, Bombay films attracted fervent worldwide viewers precisely for their elements of romance, music, and spectacle. In this richly documented history of Hindi cinema during the long 1960s, Samhita Sunya historicizes the emergence of world cinema as a category of cinematic diplomacy that formed in the crucible of the Cold War. Interwoven with this history is an account of the prolific transnational circuits of popular Hindi films alongside the efflorescence of European art cinema and Cold War–era forays of Hollywood abroad. By following archival leads and threads of argumentation within commercial Hindi films that seem to be odd cases—flops, remakes, low-budget comedies, and prestige productions—this book offers a novel map for excavating the historical and ethical stakes of world cinema and world-making, via Bombay.

By: Samhita Sunya
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 3
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780520379534
ISBN 10: 0520379535
Series: Cinema Cultures in Contact
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 26 July 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Samhita Sunya is Assistant Professor of Cinema in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia.

Reviews for Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay

"""[A] profound labour of love. . . . Sunya’s book is a gift to faculty and students of both undergraduate and graduate studies because of its depth, lucidity, and accessibility."" * FemAsia * ""Sirens of Modernity provides a rigorous and scholarly, yet accessible and engrossing, contribution to Indian cinema studies that will be useful for world cinema studies, sound studies, and gender studies."" * Film Quarterly *"