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100			_aMajumdar, Neepa _98605
245			_aWanted cultured ladies only! : _bfemale stardom and cinema in India, 1930s-1950s
260			_aChicago _bUniversity of Illinois Press _c2009
300			_axi, 258p.,
500			_ahttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6723352-wanted-cultured-ladies-only
520			_aWanted Cultured Ladies Only! maps out the early culture of cinema stardom in India from its emergence in the silent era to the decade after Indian independence in the mid-twentieth century. Neepa Majumdar combines readings of specific films and stars with an analysis of the historical and cultural configurations that gave rise to distinctly Indian notions of celebrity. She argues that discussions of early cinematic stardom in India must be placed in the context of the general legitimizing discourse of colonial "improvement" that marked other civic and cultural spheres as well, and that "vernacular modernist" anxieties over the New Woman had limited resonance here. Rather, it was through emphatically nationalist discourses that Indian cinema found its model for modern female identities. Considering questions of spectatorship, gossip, popularity, and the dominance of a star-based production system, Majumdar details the rise of film stars such as Sulochana, Fearless Nadia, Lata Mangeshkar, and Nargis
650			_aMotion picture actors and actresses _95542
650			_aWomen in motion pictures _98606
650			_aFilm history _98607
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