From real to reel: folk dances of India in Bollywood cinema

Title: From real to reel: folk dances of India in Bollywood cinema
Creator: Kishore, Vikrant
Relation: http://www.unesco-apnieve.edu.au/
Publisher: UNESCO-APNIEVE
Resource Type: book
Date: 2014
Description: An analysis of the representation of traditional Indian folk dance forms in the song and dance sequences of contemporary Bollywood cinema and how these Intangible Cultural Heritage dance forms (e.g. Purulia Chhau and Bhangra) are radically altered and hybridized in the process of cinematic representation, a transformation that has often had a detrimental impact upon their contemporary performance.
Subject: folk dancing; India; motion picture industry; Bollywood; dancing
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1066831
Identifier: uon:18246
Identifier: ISBN:9780992525958
Language: eng