Travels of Bollywood Cinema (From Bombay to LA)
Book Specification
| Item Code: | NAL229 |
| Author: | Anjali Gera Roy and Chuha Beng Huat |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, New Delhi |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2014 |
| ISBN: | 9780199454150 |
| Pages: | 387 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Other Details | 8.5 inch x 5.5 inch |
| Weight | 440 gm |
Book Description
This book examines the temporal and spatial flows of Indian Popular cinema from Bombay (Mumbai) and other production centres in the Indian subcontinent to widely dispersed spaces of consumption for nearly a century. With essays by eminent scholars, it brings together perspectives on ‘Bollywood cinema from diverse disciplinary and geographical locations to bear upon notions of nationalism, regionalism, and transnalism; politics and aesthetics; and exhibition practices and spectatorship in order to re-conceptualize the understanding of national cinemas.
Anjali Gera Roy is Professor, Department of Humanities and social, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and was senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2008-9) Chuha 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.
| Acknowledgements | Vll | |
| The Bollywood Turn in South Asian Cinema: National, Transnational, or Global? - Anjali Gera Roy and Chua Beng Huat | ix | |
| PART 1. MODERNITY, GLOBALIZATION, GLOBALITY: Bill Ashcroft | ||
| 1. | Bollywood, Postcolonial Transformation, and Modernity | |
| 2 | Cultural Flows, Travelling Shows: Bombay Talkies, Global Times: Makarand R. Paranjape | 19 |
| 3 | Mustard Fields, Exotic Tropes, and Travels through Meandering Pathways: Reframing the Yash Raj Trajectory: Madhuja Mukherjee | 35 |
| PART 2. LOVE ACROSS THE BORDER | ||
| 4 | The Lahore Film Industry: A Historical Sketch: Ishtiaq Ahmed | 55 |
| 5 | From Chandigarh to Vancouver: Reimagining Home and Identity in the Films of Harbhajan Mann: Nicola Mooney | 78 |
| 6 | Bollywood, Tollywood, Dollywood: Re-visiting Cross-border Flows and the Beat of the 1970s in the Context of Globalization: Anuradha Ghosh | 98 |
| 7 | Cinematic Border Crossings in Two Bengals: Cultural Translation as Communalization?: Zakir Hossain Raju | 123 |
| PART 3. THE OTHER FILM INDUSTRY | ||
| 8 | Region, Language, and Indian Cinema: Mysore and Kannada Language Cinema of the 1950s : M.K Raghavendra | 139 |
| 9 | Modernity and Male Anxieties in Early Malayalam Cinema: Meena T. Pillai | 154 |
| 10 | Cinema in Motion: Tracking Tamil Cinema's Assemblage Vijay Devadas and Selvaraj Velayutham | 164 |
| PART 4. VILLAGE IN THE CITY | ||
| 11. | Migrant, Diaspora, NRl: Bhojpuri Cinema and the 'Local in the Global': D. Parthasarathy | 183 |
| 12 | Welcome to Sajjanpur: Theatre and Transnational Hindi Cinema : Nandi Bhatia | 199 |
| PART 5. THE TRAVELS OF BOLLYWOOD CINEMA: FROM BOMBAY TO LA | ||
| 13 | Diasporic Bollywood: In the Tracks of a | 219 |
| Twice-displaced Community: Manas Ray | ||
| 14 | Marketing, Hybridiry, and Media Industries: Globalization and Expanding Audiences for Popular Hindi Cinema - Kavita Karan and David J Schaefer | 238 |
| 15 | 'It Was Filmed in My Home Town': Diasporic Audiences and Foreign Locations in Indian Popular Cinema : Andrew Hassam | 260 |
| 16 | Yaari with Angrez: Whiteness for a New Bollywood Hero: Teresa Hubel | 279 |
| 17 | Bollywood Films and African Audiences: Gwenda Vander Steene | 302 |
| 18 | From Ghetto to Mainstream: Bollywood inland South Africa: Haseenah Ebrabim | 321 |
| List of Contributors | 341 | |
| Index | 347 |
