Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
1. The Essential Bollywood.
Part I: Theoretical Frameworks
2. 'Indian Cinema: Pleasures and Popularity'
3. 'Towards a Theoretical Critique of Bombay Cinema'
4. 'Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction'
5. '"In the throes of change: exhibition, production and
distribution" in Indian Popular Cinema: Industry, Ideology and
Consciousness'
6. ‘Secret Politics Essay’ excerpted from The Secret Politics of
Our Desires: Innocence, Culpability and Indian Popular Cinema.
7. ‘The National-Heroic Image’ from National Identity in Indian
Popular Cinema: 1947-1987.
Part II: Recent Trajectories
8. ‘Avenging Women in Indian Cinema’
9. "Figuring Mother India: The Face of Nargis," in India Traffic:
Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India
10. "What is Behind Film Censorship?: The Khalnayak Debates."
11. “The Home and the Nation: Consuming Culture and Politics in
Roja” in Pleasure and the Nation: The History, Politics and
Consumption of Public Culture in India.
12. "Inside and Out: Song and Dance in Bollywood Cinema."
13. ‘Invisible Representation: The Oral Contours of a National
Popular Cinema’
14. “Imagining the family: an Ethnography of Viewing Hum Aapke Hain
Kaun.” Pleasure and the Nation: The History, Politics and
Consumption of Public Culture in India.
Part III: Bollywood Abroad and Beyond15. 'The “Bollywoodization” of
the Indian Cinema: Cultural Nationalism in a Global Arena'
16. "Bollywood and the Frictions of Global Mobility" from Media on
the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow.
17. ‘Itineraries of Indian Cinema: African Videos, Bollywood and
Global Media’ in Multiculturalism, Postcolonialism and
Transnational Media.
18. ‘Ever Since You've Discovered the Video, I've Had No Peace’:
Diasporic Spectators Talk Back to Indian Media.
19. ‘Queer as Desis: Secret Politics of Gender and Sexuality in
Bollywood Films in Diasporic Urban Ethnoscapes’ from Bollywood:
Sociology Goes to the Movies.
20. ‘On the Cinematic Assemblage and the Case of Bollywood: Some
Theses’ (previously unpublished chapter specifically commissioned
for this Reader).
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Rajinder Dudrah is Head of Drama and Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.
Jigna Desai is Associate Professor in the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Department and the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Minnesota, USA.
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