This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.
In Untimely Bollywood, Amit S. Rai argues that the fast-paced, multivalent qualities of contemporary Bollywood cinema are emblematic of the changing conditions of media consumption in a globalizing India.
Defining Bollywood as an arena of public culture distinct from Hindi-language Bombay cinema, this volume offers a new critical framework for analyzing the institutional, cultural, and political dimensions of Bollywood films and film music ...
Bollywood and Globalization
... people's rebellion against the establishment, but also the way to adjust and humanize to it” (2004: 216). The role of ... the art of storytelling is the art of repeating old stories, Hindi cinema has certainly perfected that art. Unlike ...
Based on extensive field research in India and the U.S., this book offers empirically-rich and theoretically-informed analyses of how the imaginations and practices of industry professionals give shape to the media worlds we inhabit and ...
By combining extended qualitative interviews and textual analysis, this book provides an insightful analysis of how the women who are socially located in the Indian diaspora use the spectacle of Bollywood cinema to renegotiate cultural ...
Yet, Indian films have been circulating globally since their inception. This book unearths this oft-elided history of Bollywood's globalization through multilingual, transnational research and discursive cultural analysis.
This interdisciplinary collection describes the many roots and routes of the Bollywood song-and-dance spectacle.
In addressing the social, political and economic implications of this cinematic revolution, Basu finds the frontier of modernisation in the subcontinent today and explains how some features of Bollywood can actually be connected to ...
Once Upon a Time in Bollywood presents an extravaganza of essays on globalization and contemporary Hindi cinema (Bollywood). The wide-ranging analytic strategies in the collection--including ethnographic self-reflection, literary comparison, economic...