Edited by Dr. Anjali Gera Roy and Dr. Chua Beng Huat
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.
Anjali Gera Roy and Chua Beng Huat: Introduction
PART I: Modernity, Globalization, and Globality
1. Bill Ashcroft: Bollywood, Postcolonial Transformation
2. Makarand Paranjape: Cultural Flows, Travelling Shows
3. Madhuja Mukherjee: Mustard Fields, Exotic Tropes, and Travels
through Meandering Pathways: Reforming the Yashraj Trajectory
PART II: Love Across the Border
4. Ishtiaq Ahmed: The Lahore Film Industry
5. Nicola Mooney: Picturing the Punjabi Diaspora
6. Anuradha Ghosh,: Two Bengals, One Conscience
7. Zakir Hosain Raju: From Dhaka to
Calcutta
PART III: The Other Film Industry
8. M.K. Raghavendra: Region, Language and Indian Cinema
9. Meena T. Pillai: MBeware of Bad Mammas
10. Vijay Devadas: Cinema in Motion
PART IV: The Village in the City
11. D. Parthasarathy: Migrant, Diaspora, NRI
12.
Nandi Bhatia: Welcome to Sajjanpur
PART V: The Travels of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay to LA
13. Manas Ray: Nation, Nostalgia, and Bollywood
14. Kavita Karan and David J Schaefer: Media Industries, Hybridity, and Marketing
15. Andrew Hassam: It was Filmed in My Home
Town
16. Teresa Hubel: Yaari with Angrez
17. Gwenda Vander Steene: Bollywood Films and African Audiences
18. Haseena Ebrahim: From Ghetto to Mainstream
List of Contributors
Index
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Anjali Gera Roy is Professor in the Department of Humanities amd Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur and Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Chua Beng Huat is concurrently Leader of the Cultural Studies in Asia Research Cluster, Convenor, PhD
Programme in Cultural Studies in Asia, and Professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.
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