ABSTRACT
This book traces the journey of popular Hindi cinema from 1913 to contemporary times when Bollywood has evolved as a part of India’s cultural diplomacy. Avoiding a linear, developmental narrative, the book re-examines the developments through the ruptures in the course of cinematic history. The essays in the volume critically consider transformations of the Hindi film industry from its early days to its present self-referential mode, issues of gender, dance and choreography, Bombay cinema’s negotiations with the changing cityscape and urbanisms, and concentrate on its multifarious regional, national and transnational implications in the 21st century.
One of the most comprehensive volumes on Bollywood, this work presents an analytical overview of the multiple histories of popular cinema in India and will be useful to scholars and researchers interested in film and media studies, South Asian popular culture and modern India, as well as to cinephiles and general readers alike.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |82 pages
Histories
chapter |14 pages
Myths, Markets and Panics
chapter |21 pages
The Left Encounter
part |68 pages
Bollywood Dance
part |58 pages
Changes in the Cityscape, Changes in Cinema
chapter |10 pages
The Re-Mapped Dialectics of Contemporary Indian Cinema
part |96 pages
Other Regions, Other Nations