Bollywood and its Other(s)

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal, Parichay Patra

      Pages 1-10

3. Exploring the Other: Cinema, Aesthetics, Philosophy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Self, Other and Bollywood

      • Dibyakusum Ray

      Pages 13-23

   3. Bombay Cinema’s Aesthetic Other

      • Parichay Patra

      Pages 24-38

4. Diaspora and the Formation of the Global Bollywood

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Transgressing the Moral Universe

      • Sarah A. Joshi

      Pages 41-54

   3. A Perfect Match

      • Sanchari De, Manas Ghosh

      Pages 55-64

5. The Musicality of Bollywood: Possibilities of Alternative Reading(s)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. Hindi Popular Cinema and Its Peripheries

      • Madhuja Mukherjee

      Pages 67-85

   3. ‘Dil Dance Maare Re’

      • Vikrant Kishore

      Pages 86-109

   4. The Systems Model of Creativity and Indian Film

      • Phillip McIntyre, Bob Davis, Vikrant Kishore

      Pages 110-129

6. Bollywood’s Other(s): Sexuality, B Movie, Queerness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Sugar and Spice

      • Suneeti Rekhari

      Pages 133-145

   3. Popular Forms, Altering Normativities

      • Aneeta Rajendran

      Pages 146-160

   4. Hinglish Cinema

      • Prateek, Amit Sarwal

      Pages 161-173

   5. The Ramsay Chronicles

      • Mithuraaj Dhusiya

      Pages 174-185

   6. Bollywood’s Encounters with the Third Kind

      • Sami Ahmad Khan

      Pages 186-201

7. Bollywood’s Other, India’s Other

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. Death Becomes Her: Bombay Cinema, Nation and Kashmir

      • Kaushik Bhaumik

      Pages 205-216

How do we define the globalized cinema and media cultures of Bollywood in an age when it has become part of the cultural diplomacy of an emerging superpower? Bollywood and Its Other(s) explores the aesthetic-philosophical questions of the other through, for example, discussions on Indian diaspora's negotiations with national identity.

• Bollywood
• Hindi popular cinema
• Self
• Other
• Alternative cinema
• Diaspora
• Vamps
• Marginal sexualities
• Gender
• Voice in cinema
• Genre
• Hinglish
• Item number
• Horror film
• Sci-fi
• Cricket
• Kashmir
• cinema
• film
• identity
• media
• media culture
• national identity

• University of Newcastle, Australia

  Vikrant Kishore

• Deakin University, Australia

  Amit Sarwal

• Monash University, Australia

  Parichay Patra

Kaushik Bhaumik, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India Bob Davis, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Sanchari De, Jadavpur University, India Mithuraaj Dhusiya, University of Delhi, India Manas Ghosh, Jadavpur University, India Sami Ahmad Khan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Vikrant Kishore, University of Newcastle, Australia Sarah Joshi, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Phillip McIntyre, University of Newcastle, Australia Madhuja Mukherjee, Jadavpur University, India Parichay Patra, Monash University, Australia Prateek, University of Delhi, India Aneeta Rajendran, Gargi College, University of Delhi, India Dibyakusum Ray, English and Foreign Languages University, India Suneeti Rekhari, Deakin University, Australia Amit Sarwal, Deakin University, Australia Anupam Sharma, Filmmaker and Author, Australia

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