Wanted cultured ladies only! female stardom and cinema in India, 1930s-1950s - Majumdar, Neepa (University of Illinois Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) and index
Translocating : Hollywood stardom in India -- The split discourse of Indian stardom -- The morality and machinery of stardom -- Real and imagined stars -- Spectatorial desires and the hierarchies of stardom -- Monopoly, frontality, and doubling in postwar Bombay cinema -- Nargis and the double space of female desire in Anhonee -- The embodied voice : song sequences and stardom in Bombay cinema