TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aarti Wani
TI  - Fantasy of modernity: romantic love in Bombay cinema of the 1950s 
SN  - 9781107117211
U1  - 791.430954 Aa76 F 
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Love in motion pictures
N1  - Romantic love overwhelms 1950s Bombay cinema. Love and romance is evident in the themes, lyrics and visual aesthetics of films of the period, as it is in the publicity and gossip surrounding films and film stars. Love in cinema becomes significant when social reality constrains its quotidian experience and expression. By bringing a spectacular imagination of love to centre stage, the 1950s cinema deflected anxieties of ‘Indianness’ even as the new aesthetic and affect of romance offered an alternative engagement with the contradictions of modernity. Fantasy of Modernity: Romantic Love in Bombay Cinema of the 1950s explores the films, the songs, the stars and the extra-cinematic discourse of the period to read love and romance as its most productive trope that mobilized a dynamic and contested public sphere; Introduction
Chapter 1. City of Love
Chapter 2. The Song of Love
Chapter 3. Love and Stardom
Conclusion
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
N2  - "Looks at the role of love and romance in the Bombay cinema of the 1950s in terms of its cultural function and social significance"--
ER  -