Research Guides: DANC 079A: Screening Bollywood Films (SC): Finding Videos

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Critical Collective - Indian Cinema
Includes some documentaries on Indian Cinema including Bollywood films.
Beyond Bollywood
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"Bollywood churns out more films than any other film industry and "making it" here is the Indian dream. This intimate and cleverly made film brings us into the world of those on the fringes, those who will do anything to be in feature films, from make-up artist Ojas to "the white extra" Harry, and the rising star Pooja. Their heart-warming characters and stories of perseverance offer a fascinating insight, as we explore the movie biz Indian style!"
Cinema Asia India
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"While northern India's 100-year-old film industry is best known for flamboyant dance sequences and romantic plot lines, its directors have begun to step outside established formulas and explore grittier subject matter. This program surveys the world of Bollywood filmmaking, examining the personalities as well as the commercial and thematic concerns that drive central Asia's answer to Tinseltown. Interviews with directors Karan Johar, Ashutosh Gowariker, and Yash Chopra are included, along with commentary from choreographers, musical directors, and Cinemaya Magazine editor Aruna Vasudev. The industry's newfound attention to poverty, homelessness, and other social concerns is examined. Several film excerpts are included."

Besides doing a "Bollywood" keyword search in the TriCollege Library Catalog, try a subject search on "Motion Picture Industry -- India -- Bombay"

Streaming Video

Dance in Video
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Streaming video of dance productions and documentaries by influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover world dance, ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Videos can be browsed by people, role, ensemble, genre, and venue. Material types include documentaries, editorials, instructional, interviews, and performances.
Academic Video Online: Premium
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AVON includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage in all academic areas. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy, Emmy, and Peabody winners.
Ethnographic Video Online
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Ethnographic Video Online is a comprehensive online resource for the study of human culture, behavior and society around the world. The collections contain over 1,300 hours of streaming video, including ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork. Intended to be a visual encyclopedia of human behavior and culture, online in streaming video. Includes footage from every continent and hundreds of unique cultures.
Filmakers Library Online
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Provides access to streaming documentaries of over 900 titles in the humanities and social sciences produced from 1978-present. Topical coverage includes race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.
Films On Demand
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Provides streaming video for over 4,000 titles in the humanities and social sciences from the Films Media Group.
Docuseek
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Independent, social-issue and environmental documentaries from Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, and more.

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TriCollege Libraries Catalog
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Use Tripod Books and More to find relevant books, scores, recordings, dissertations, journals and other material owned by Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges. Click on the "request" button at the bottom of an item's record to have it delivered to your library.
WorldCat
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This is a gigantic catalog of millions of materials owned by libraries all over the world describing books, essays, scores, videos, sound recordings, websites, and manuscript collections. If you find something in WorldCat not owned by the Tri-Colleges we can probably get it for you.
New York Public Library Dance Catalog
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Part of the New York Public Library, this catalog lists works about all forms of dance, from all cultures, in print and other media. Offers citation information for an international range of dance periodicals.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is a collection of scholarly research in the Humanities and Social Sciences that consists of 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertations and theses from around the world, and 1.2 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Coverage is from 1861 to the present day.