Bollywood movies are glorious, colorful spectacles of romance,action, drama, song, and dance. The biggest film industry in theworld, Bollywood puts out some nine hundred movies a year, whichare watched by passionate fans around the globe. Stephen Alter--awriter who grew up in India and has inside access toBollywood--acts as translator and tour guide in this firsthand lookinto the world of Bombay films. Following the making of a Bollywoodversion of Othello, he explores the enormous popularity of Hindimovies and reveals the actors, directors, musicians, and feats ofartifice that make them so compelling and unique. From the blessingceremony performed each time a movie starts shooting to the secretsbehind the song- and-dance extravaganzas, Fantasies of a BollywoodLove-Thief is a beguiling introduction to the rituals and cultureof a moviemaking industry so similar to and yet utterly differentfrom our own.
The classic Photofile series brings together the best work ofthe world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at areasonable price. Handsome and collectible, the books each containsome sixty reproductions, plus a critical introduction and abibliography. With his focus on the "disagreeable beauty" of the anomalous andthe transgressive, Joel-Peter Witkin's images are edgy anddisturbing. Influenced by artists from Giotto to the Surrealists,by daguerreotypes and the work of Bellocq, his portraits andcomplex tableaux incorporating corpses, hermaphrodites, masks, andmutilation provoke and challenge the viewer. 64 illustrations incolor and duotone.
