Fearless Nadia, the women with the whip: Stunt films and stars in pre-independence Bombay Cinema
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Westminster
Department Name: Faculty of Media Arts and Design
Abstract
I intend to complete a book on the stunt genre in pre-independence Indian cinema. Top box-office star of the 1930s and 1940s, stunt queen Fearless Nadia, provides the focus through which the book charts the rise and fall of the Bombay studios. Around her iconic figure are woven arguments about femininity, nationalism, hybridity and transnational popular cinema. Archival and library research in London and India, together with interviews and film analysis, are producing new knowledge on the basis of which I am proposing a re-evaluation of the significance of stunt, action and comedy genres within Indian cinema history.
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K. Rosie Thomas (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Rosie Thomas
(2011)
Beyond the Boundaries of Bollywood: The Many Forms of Hindi Cinema
Thomas Rosie
(2013)
Bombay Before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies
Rosie Thomas
(2007)
Sarai Read 07: Frontiers
Rosie Thomas
(2013)
Scheherazade's Children: Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights
Thomas, Rosie
(2011)
Still Magic: An Aladdin's Cave of 1950s B-movie Fantasy
in Tasveerghar Digital Archive
Rosie Thomas
(2009)
The Cinema of India