Global Bollywood

by Punathambekar, Aswin

• ISBN13: 9780814747988
• ISBN10: 0814747981
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-01
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

”Engaging, and a rewarding experience. A must-read for all Bollywood enthusiasts as well as others who wish to be informed about this remarkable phenomenon.” --Vijay Mishra, author of Bollywood Cinema: Temples of DesireBollywood 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 it 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Global Bollywood	p. 1
Framing Bollywood
The "Bollywoodization" of the Indian Cinema: Cultural Nationalism in a Global Arena	p. 17
Surviving Bollywood	p. 41
Mumbai versus Bollywood: The Hindi Film Industry and the Politics of Cultural Heritage in Contemporary India	p. 52
Hollywood, Bollywood, Tollywood: Redefining the Global in Indian Cinema	p. 79
The Globalization of "Bollywood"-The Hype and Hope	p. 97
Texts and Audiences
Our Violence, Their Violence: Exploring the Emotional and Relational Matrix of Terrorist Cinema	p. 117
Exoticized, Marginalized, Demonized: The Muslim "Other" in Indian Cinema	p. 131
The Mirror Has Many Faces: The Politics of Male Same-Sex Desire in BOMgAY and Gulabi Aaina	p. 146
"Bring Back the Old Films, Our Culture Is in Disrepute": Hindi Film and the Construction of Femininity in Guyana	p. 164
"From Villain to Traditional Housewife!": The Politics of Globalization and Women's Sexuality in the "New" Indian Media	p. 180
Songs from the Heart: Musical Coding, Emotional Sentiment, and Transnational Sonic Identity in India's Popular Film Music	p. 203
Beyond Film: Stars, Fans, and Participatory Culture
Deewar/Wall (1975)-Fact, Fiction, and the Making of a Superstar	p. 223
The Indian Film Magazine, Stardust	p. 240
Bollyweb: Search for Bollywood on the Web and See What Happens!	p. 268
"We're Online, Not on the Streets": Indian Cinema, New Media, and Participatory Culture	p. 282
Afterword: Fast-Forward into the Future, Haunted by the Past: Bollywood Today	p. 300
About the Contributors	p. 307
Index	p. 311
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