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Full Record for Text No. 437


Author 1:Heather Tyrrell
Title:Bollywood in Britain
Published in:Sight and Sound
Edited by:
Place:
Publisher:
Year:1998
Vol./No./Date:Vol. 8, no. 8
Pages:22-22
Location:TABB
Synopsis:Article on the growth of cinema audiences for Hindi films in Britain - following an earlier decline triggered by the arrival of home video and satellite television - with screenings in cities around the UK regularly selling out. The author relates the early attempts by the Indian High Commissioner to introduce subtitled prints to a mass audience in the 1940s and refers to viewing habits in the 1960s which had not previously be seen in British cinemas, for example auditoria seating divided by gender.
Keyword 1:audience
Keyword 2:Bollywood
Keyword 3:British film
Keyword 4:India
Keyword 5:film industry
Keyword 6:exhibition
Keyword 7:Britain
Keyword 8:Asian

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