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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.

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Author:   Anjali Gera Roy (, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Kharagpur) ,  Chua Beng Huat (, Chua Beng Huat: Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore)
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.436kg
ISBN:  

9780199454150

ISBN 10:   0199454159
Pages:   388
Publication Date:   December 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Anjali Gera Roy is Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur, and Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Chua Beng Huat is concurrently Leader, Cultural Studies in Asia Research Cluster; Convenor, PhD Programme in Cultural Studies in Asia; and Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.

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