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On Location: Tracking Secret Agents and Films, between Bombay and Beirut

Film history (New York, N.Y.), 2020-09, Vol.32 (3), p.105-140 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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On Location: Tracking Secret Agents and Films, between Bombay and Beirut
Author: Sunya, Samhita
Subjects: Action & adventure films ; Audiences ; Cabaret ; Cold War ; Computer peripherals industry ; Distribution ; Film history ; Foreign exchange ; Genre ; Hindi language ; International economic relations ; Melodramas ; Motion picture industry ; Motion pictures ; Movie & television coproductions ; Narratives ; Postwar history ; Subtitles & subtitling ; Thrillers ; Transnationalism
Is Part Of: Film history (New York, N.Y.), 2020-09, Vol.32 (3), p.105-140
Description: By focusing on Bombay commercial productions shot on location in Beirut, I consider why Lebanon became a prominent destination for foreign film productions between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s. The ensuing films' narratives were motivated not only by the Lebanese capital's prominence in globally popular spy-action genres, but also by material histories of contraband circuits (including the circulation of films) and cash flows of foreign exchange. I highlight the wider convergence of several industries on location in Beirut in order to expand histories of both postwar location shooting and spy-action genres, and to foreground routes of South-South media production, subtitling, and distribution.
Publisher: Sydney: Indiana University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0892-2160
EISSN: 1553-3905
DOI: 10.2979/FILMHISTORY.32.3.05
Source: ProQuest Central

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