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The book examines the historical and spatial flows of Indian popular cinema from Bombay (Mumbai) and other production centres on the Indian subcontinent to different spaces of consumption for nearly a century culminating in the Bollywood-inspired-Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. Bringing together essays by eminent scholars of anthropology, history and cultural, media, communication and film studies, this volume shows that Bollywood cinema has always crossed borders and boundaries. The book argues that Bollywood has had a century-long history of travelling to the British Malaya, Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad, Mauritius, East and South Africa with the old diasporas and with and without the new diasporas to the former USSR, West Asia, the UK, the USA, Canada and Australia. It brings together perspectives on Indian cinema from different disciplinary and geographical locations to re-conceptualize the understanding of national cinemas. The book looks at the meaning of nation, diaspora, home and identity in cinematic texts and contexts and examines the ways in which localities are produced in the new global process by broadly addressing nationalism, regionalism and transnationalism, politics and aesthetics and spectatorship and viewing contexts.
Book Features:
Focuses on how Bollywood cinema has always crossed borders and boundaries
18 essays by scholars of film, media, communication and cultural studies, anthropology and history
Detailed Introduction by editors
Table of Content:
Acknowledgements
The Bollywood Turn in South Asian Cinema: National, Transnational, or Global?
Anjali Gera Roy and Chua Beng Huat
Part 1: Modernity, Globalization, Globality
Bollywood, Postcolonial Transformation and Modernity Bill Ashcroft
Cultural Flows, Travelling Shows: Bombay Talkies, Global Times Makarand Paranjape
Mustard Fields, Exotic Tropes and Travels through Meandering Pathways: Reframing the Yash Raj Trajectory Madhuja Mukherjee
Part 2: Love Across The Border
The Lahore Film Industry: A Historical Sketch Ishtiaq Ahmed
From Chandigarh to Vancouver: Reimagining Home and Identity in the Films of Harbhajan Mann Nicola Mooney
Bollywood, Tollywood, Dollywood: Re-visiting Cross-border Flows and the Beat of the 1970s in the Context of Globalization Anuradha Ghosh
Cinematic Border Crossings in Two Bengals: Cultural Translation as Communalization? Zakir Hossain Raju
Part 3: The Other Film Industry
Region, Language and Indian Cinema: Mysore and Kannada Language Cinema of the 1950s M.K. Raghavendra
Modernity and Male Anxieties in Early Malayalam Cinema Meena T. Pillai
Cinema in Motion: Tracking Tamil Cinema`s Assemblage Vijay Devadas and Selvaraj Velayutham
Part 4: Village In The City
Migrant, Diaspora, NRI: Bhojpuri Cinema and the `Local in the Global` D. Parthasarathy
Welcome to Sajjanpur: Theatre and Transnational Hindi Cinema Nandi Bhatia
Part 5: The Travels Of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay To La
Diasporic Bollywood: In the Tracks of a Twice-displaced Community Manas Ray
Marketing, Hybridity and Media Industries: Globalization and Expanding Audiences for Popular Hindi Cinema Kavita Karan and David J. Schaefer
`It Was Filmed in My Home Town`: Diasporic Audiences and Foreign Locations in Indian Popular Cinema Andrew Hassam
Yaari with Angrez: Whiteness for a New Bollywood Hero Teresa Hubel
Bollywood Films and African Audiences Gwenda Vander Steene
From Ghetto to Mainstream: Bollywood in/and South Africa Haseenah Ebrahim List of ContributorsISBN - 9780199454150
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Pages : 388
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