By: Anjali Gera Roy (Editor), Chua Beng Huat (Editor)

Hardcover

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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.

Introduction by Anjali Gera Roy and Chua Beng Huat 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, 'Beware 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

ISBN: 9780198075981
ISBN-10: 0198075987
Audience: General
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 352
Published: 2nd February 2012
Dimensions (cm): 22.4 x 14.9  x 3.08
Weight (kg): 0.584