Contents

Introduction: Global Bollywood

PART I: Framing Bollywood

1 The “Bollywoodization” of the Indian Cinema: Cultural Nationalism in a Global Arena

2 Surviving Bollywood

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

4 Hollywood, Bollywood, Tollywood: Redefining the Global in Indian Cinema

5 The Globalization of “Bollywood” — The Hype and Hope

PART II: Texts and Audiences

6 Our Violence, Their Violence: Exploring the Emotional and Relational Matrix of Terrorist Cinema

7 Exoticized, Marginalized, Demonized: The Muslim “Other” in Indian Cinema

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

9 “Bring Back the Old Films, Our Culture Is in Disrepute”: Hindi Film and the Construction of Femininity in Guyana

10 “From Villain to Traditional Housewife!”: The Politics of Globalization and Women’s Sexuality in the “New” Indian Media

11 Songs from the Heart: Musical Coding, Emotional Sentiment, and Transnational Sonic Identity in India’s Popular Film Music

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

12 Deewar/Wall (1975) — Fact, Fiction, and the Making of a Superstar

13 The Indian Film Magazine, Stardust

14 Bollyweb: Search for Bollywood on the Web and See What Happens!

15 “We’re Online, Not on the Streets”: Indian Cinema, New Media, and Participatory Culture

Afterword: Fast-Forward into the Future, Haunted by the Past: Bollywood Today

About the Contributors

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