Fascinating, incommensurable and chaotic, Mumbai is a megalopolis of dramatic diversity and heartbreaking extremes, where immense wealth is just steps away from the searing poverty of its huge slums. The home of Bollywood, Mumbai is also the epicentre of India’s film industry and its foremost film location. Through the lens of Mumbai’s manifold cinematic representations, World Film Locations: Mumbai explores the sheer complexity of this incomparable city.
This volume comprises insightful essays and beautifully illustrated scene analyses by leading scholars and film critics who explore the ways filmmakers from India and abroad have represented Mumbai’s astonishing urban and human landscape. Their contributions show how movies have created in the imaginations of billions of spectators the vivid image of a city that constantly tempts people to escape their dreary existence and offers them a chance to fulfil their dreams. The first book to focus on cinematic representations of what is perhaps the world’s most-filmed city, World Film Locations: Mumbai will be necessary reading for scholars and film buffs alike.
Table of Content
Maps/Scenes
Scenes 1-8 1948 – 1966
Scenes 9-16 1970 – 1978
Scenes 17-24 1979 – 1989
Scenes 25-32 1989 – 2000
Scenes 33-39 2001 – 2008
Scenes 40-46 2008 – 2010
Essays
Mumbai: City of the Imagination – Helio San Miguel
Bollywood: The Thousand Flavours of the Cinema of Mumbai – Alberto Elena
Victoria Terminus: Gateway of India’s Dreams – Mayank Shekhar
Counter-Bollywood: Realist Fables from the City of Dreams – Nandini Ramnath
Mumbai Noir: An Uncanny Present – Ranjani Mazumdar
Bombay, Post 6 December 1992: Space and Time of Communalism – Lalitha Gopalan
Bollywood Dynasties: Star Power and Lineage in Mumbai’s Film Aristocracy – Devrath Sagar
About the author
Helio San Miguel has a Ph.D. in Philosophy and an M.F.A. in Film from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is currently editing a monographic issue for the Secuencias journal on the changes in Bollywood in the last two decades. He has contributed to World Film Locations: Madrid (Intellect), The Cinema of Latin America (Wallflower Press), and Tierra en Trance (Alianza Editorial). Helio teaches film at The New School in New York City and is the writer and director of Blindness, a 32-minute fiction film.
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