{"product_id":"bollywood-a-history-9780752428352","title":"Bollywood: A History","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first comprehensive history of Indias film industry  one that now rivals Hollywood.Hollywood may define our idea of movies but it is the city of Bombay on the west coast of India that is now the center of world cinema. Every year the Indian film industry produces more than a 1 000 feature films  every day fourteen million Indians go to a movie and  a billion more people a year buy tickets for Indian movies than for Hollywood ones. The rise of Bombay as the film capital of the world has been remarkable. Bollywood takes the cinematic tech-niques of Hollywood and uses them to produce movies that bear no relation to the original  but have a compelling appeal  that  in the last half a century  has enthralled audiences throughout eastern Europe  the Middle East and north Africa. The movies themselves are a self contained world with their multiple song and dance routines  intense melodrama  a plot that contains everything from farce to tragedy  but always produces a happy ending. The men and women who create these movies are even more remarkable and it is this fantastic  rich  diverse story  a veritable Indian fairyland that Mihir Bose  a native of Bombay  tells with vivid brilliance  in the first comprehensive history of this major social and cultural phenomenon.Bollywood movies may only recently have begun to be noticed in the west  but they have long defined the very concept of cinema for many millions across the globe. While the name Bollywood echoes and acknowledges its bastard American parentage the son has long since taken over from the father\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651639861301,"sku":"ByrdShop_0752428357","price":62.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780752428352.jpg?v=1781836816","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/bollywood-a-history-9780752428352","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}