Indian films in Soviet cinemas : the culture of movie-going after Stalin

Indian films and film stars were immensely popular with Soviet audiences in the post-Stalinist period. Sudha Rajagopalan provides the first detailed social and cultural history of this phenomenon, exploring the consumption of Indian popular cinema in the USSR from the mid-1950s until the end of the Soviet era. Drawing on oral history and archival research in Russia, Rajagopalan analyzes the ways in which Soviet movie-goers, policy makers, critics, and sociologists responded to, interpreted, and debated Indian cinema. Indian Films In The Soviet Past : Memories Articulated -- Import/facilitation : Ambivalent Accommodation -- Criticism : Mediation And Disengagement -- Public Voices : Negotiation. Sudha Rajagopalan. Based On Author's Thesis (ph. D.)--indiana University, 2005. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [212]-232) And Index.