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.
Acknowledgements
The Bollywood Turn in South Asian Cinema: National, Transnational, or Global?
Anjali Gera Roy and Chua Beng Huat
PART 1. MODERNITY, GLOBALIZATION, GLOBALITY
1. Bill Ashcroft: Bollywood, Postcolonial Transformation, and Modernity
2. Makarand Paranjape:
Cultural Flows, Travelling Shows: Bombay Talkies, Global Times
3. Madhuja Mukherjee: Mustard Fields, Exotic Tropes, and Travels through Meandering Pathways: Reframing the Yash Raj Trajectory
PART 2. LOVE ACROSS THE BORDER
4. Ishtiaq Ahmed: The Lahore Film Industry: A Historical
Sketch
5. Nicola Mooney: From Chandigarh to Vancouver: Reimagining Home and Identity in the Films of Harbhajan Mann
6. Anuradha Ghosh: Bollywood, Tollywood, Dollywood: Re-visiting Cross-border Flows and the Beat of the 1970s in the Context of Globalization
7. Zakir Hossain Raju:
Cinematic Border Crossings in Two Bengals: Cultural Translation as Communalization?
PART 3. THE OTHER FILM INDUSTRY
8. M.K. Raghavendra: Region, Language, and Indian Cinema: Mysore and Kannada Language Cinema of the 1950s
9. Meena T. Pillai: Modernity and Male Anxieties in Early
Malayalam Cinema
10. Vijay Devadas and Selvaraj Velayutham: Cinema in Motion: Tracking Tamil Cinema's Assemblage
PART 4. VILLAGE IN THE CITY
11. D. Parthasarathy: Migrant, Diaspora, NRI: Bhojpuri Cinema and the 'Local in the Global'
12. Nandi Bhatia: Welcome to Sajjanpur:
Theatre and Transnational Hindi Cinema
PART 5. THE TRAVELS OF BOLLYWOOD CINEMA: FROM BOMBAY TO LA
13. Manas Ray: Diasporic Bollywood: In the Tracks of a Twice-displaced Community
14. Kavita Karan and David J. Schaefer: Marketing, Hybridity, and Media Industries: Globalization and
Expanding Audiences for Popular Hindi Cinema
15. Andrew Hassam: 'It Was Filmed in My Home Town': Diasporic Audiences and Foreign Locations in Indian Popular Cinema
16. Teresa Hubel: Yaari with Angrez: Whiteness for a New Bollywood Hero
17. Gwenda Vander Steene: Bollywood Films and
African Audiences
18. Haseenah Ebrahim: From Ghetto to Mainstream: Bollywood in/and South Africa
List of Contributors
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Anjali Gera Roy is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at 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, National University of Singapore.
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