Voices of the Talking Stars: Women of Indian Cinema and Beyond/
edited by Madhuja Mukherjee
- Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2016.
Machine generated contents note: Writing and Archiving the Self -- The Problem of Respectable Ladies -- Women Writing Cinema -- Women Conceiving Cinema -- 1. Writing and Archiving the Self: Conversations and Biographies -- A Short Note on Devdas -- On Jamuna Barua -- Conversations on Devdas with Jamuna Barua -- On Kananbala -- I Salute All Kanan Devi -- 2. The Problem of Respectable Ladies: Letters and Responses -- `Letters to New Theatres' Ratan Bai -- `Why Shouldn't Respectable Ladies Join the Films' Sabita Devi -- 3. Women Writing Cinema: Voices and Verses -- `Tanhaa Chaand' and `Tukre Tukre' Meena Kumari Naz -- `I'm a Bad Girl' and `I'm No Angel' Mae West -- 4. Women Conceiving Cinema: Talking Stars -- Oral Evidence, Indian Cinematograph Committee Report (1927 -- 28) Ruby Myers nee Sulochana -- Oral Evidence, Indian Cinematograph Committee Report (1927 -- 28) Patience Cooper and Rainey Smith nee Sita Devi -- Oral Evidence, Indian Cinematograph Committee Report (1927 -- 28) Punjab Board of Film Censors -- Oral Evidence, Indian Cinematograph Committee Report (1927 -- 28) Mrs. Ansell, Entrepreneur.