{"id":1654,"date":"2023-08-03T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2023-09-14T13:40:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T17:40:51","slug":"sampling-indias-popular-cinema-and-global-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/2023\/08\/03\/sampling-indias-popular-cinema-and-global-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"Sampling India\u2019s Popular Cinema \u2014 and Global Reach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Film clips from Bollywood will be starring in three talks in September and October, at various libraries in Maine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first event to be scheduled in the community events series leading up to the 2024 Camden Conference on&nbsp;<em>India: Rising Ambitions, Challenges at Home<\/em>&nbsp;on Feb. 16 \u2013 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Long the world\u2019s largest film industry, India\u2019s commercial Hindi-language cinema largely based in Mumbai has long surpassed Hollywood in number of films produced and tickets sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/faculty\/cavallero-jonathan\/\">Jon Cavallero<\/a>, Associate Professor and Chair of Rhetoric, Film and Screen Studies at Bates College and Founding Director of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/course-wp.bates.edu\/rhet391\/\">Bates Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0will introduce Bollywood\u2019s unique cinematic style, as well as its global power, particularly in the developing world where Hollywood\u2019s sales have lagged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-style-lightgray-bg has-dark-color has-text-color\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/2023\/09\/07\/bollywood-an-introduction-rockport-public-library\/\">Bollywood: An Introduction (Rockport Public 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