Book Launch for Once Upon a Time in Bollywood and Gods in the Bazaar

Book Launch for Once Upon a Time in Bollywood: The Global Swing in Hindi Cinema and Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art at David Mirvish Books on Art, with Duke University Press and TSAR Publications.

Once Upon a Time in Bollywood: The Global Swing in Hindi Cinema
Edited by Gurbir Jolly, Zenia Wadhwani, Deborah Barretto
Once Upon a Time in Bollywood presents an extravaganza of essays on globalization and contemporary Hindi cinema (“Bollywood”). Together, these essays invite fresh, critically informed engagements with many of the key issues and creative tensions that continue to shape the world’s most prolific film industry.

Featuring essays by Susan Dewey, Monika Mehta, Radhika Desai, Nitin Deckha, Jenny Sharpe, Ravinder Kaur, Usamah Ansari, Sonia Benjamin, Ahmad Saidullah, Jennifer Thomas, and Florian Stadtler.

Gurbir Jolly is currently pursuing a PhD in Humanities at York University.

Zenia Wadhwani works in the non-profit sector during the day and spends her evenings and weekends loving and promoting South Asian arts and culture.

Deborah Barretto works for a women's organization in Toronto.

Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art
by Kajri Jain
Gods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as “calendar art” or “bazaar art,” the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and in advertisements, featuring deities and other religious themes as well as nationalist leaders, alluring women, movie stars, chubby babies, and landscapes.

Kajri Jain is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Visual and Media Culture at the University of Toronto at Mississauga and the Graduate Department of Art at the University of Toronto, St. George.

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