Global Bollywood / edited by Anandam P. Kavoori and Aswin Punathambekar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kavoori, Anandam P.

Punathambekar, Aswin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--India.

Motion picture industry.

India.

Motion pictures--India.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

vi, 314 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2008]

Summary:

Bollywood is one of the most prolific film industries in the world. Based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), the industry churns out hundreds of films each year-primarily melodramatic films with music and elaborately choreographed dance routines. Bollywood's popularity is quickly spreading across the globe, and, beyond the films themselves, Bollywood has made its way into global popular culture.

Global Bollywood brings together leading scholars to examine the transnational and transmedia terrain of Bollywood. 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 as they begin to constitute an important circuit of global flows in the twenty-first century.

Organized thematically, the book examines contestations surrounding the term "Bollywood," changing relations between the state and the film industry, convergence with television and new media, online fan culture, film journalism, and the reception and negotiations of gender and sexuality in diverse socio-cultural contexts. Global Bollywood is indispensable for understanding not only Bollywood cinema and culture but also how global media flows are reconfiguring relationships among geography, cultural production, and cultural identity.

Contents:

Introduction: Global Bollywood / Aswin Punathambekar, Anandam P. Kavoori 1

Part I Framing Bollywood

1 The "Bollywoodization" of the Indian Cinema: Cultural Nationalism in a Global Arena / Ashish Rajadhyaksha 17

2 Surviving Bollywood / M. Madhava Prasad 41

3 Mumbai versus Bollywood: The Hindi Film Industry and the Politics of Cultural Heritage in Contemporary India / Tejaswini Ganti 52

4 Hollywood, Bollywood, Tollywood: Redefining the Global in Indian Cinema / Shanti Kumar 79

5 The Globalization of "Bollywood"-The Hype and Hope / Daya Kishan Thussu 97

Part II Texts and Audiences

6 Our Violence, Their Violence: Exploring the Emotional and Relational Matrix of Terrorist Cinema / Vamsee Juluri 117

7 Exoticized, Marginalized, Demonized: The Muslim "Other" in Indian Cinema / Kalyani Chadha, Anandam P. Kavoori 131

8 The Mirror Has Many Faces: The Politics of Male Same-Sex Desire in BOMgAY and Gulabi Aaina / Parmesh Shahani 146

9 "Bring Back the Old Films, Our Culture Is in Disrepute": Hindi Film and the Construction of Femininity in Guyana / Atticus Narain 164

10 "From Villain to Traditional Housewife!": The Politics of Globalization and Women's Sexuality in the "New" Indian Media / Padma Govindan, Bisakha Dutta 180

11 Songs from the Heart: Musical Coding, Emotional Sentiment, and Transnational Sonic Identity in India's Popular Film Music / Natalie Sarazzin 203

Part III Beyond Film: Stars, Fans, and Participatory Culture

12 Deewar/Wall (1975)-Fact, Fiction, and the Making of a Superstar / Jyotika Virdi 223

13 The Indian Film Magazine, Stardust / Rachel Dwyer 240

14 Bollyweb: Search for Bollywood on the Web and See What Happens! / Ananda Mitra 268

15 "We're Online, Not on the Streets": Indian Cinema, New Media, and Participatory Culture / Aswin Punathambekar 282

Afterword: Fast-Forward into the Future, Haunted by the Past: Bollywood Today / Arvind Rajagopal 300.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814747995

081474799X

9780814747988

0814747981

OCLC:

183264734

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