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This reader provides a road map of the scholarship on modern Hindi cinema in India. Its emphasis is on understanding the interplay between cinema and colonialism, nationalism, and globalization.
Introduction: How the Hindi film industry became "Bollywood" -- Part 1: The social status of films and filmmakers -- From vice to virtue : the state and filmmaking in India -- From slumdogs to millionaires : the gentrification of Hindi cinema -- Casting respectability -- Part 2: The practices and processes of film production -- A day in the life of a Hindi film set -- The structure, organization, and social relations of the Hindi film industry -- Sentiments of disdain and practices of distinction : the work culture of the Hindi film industry -- Risky business : managing uncertainty in the Hindi film industry -- Part 3: Discourses and practices of audience-making -- Pleasing both aunties and servants : the Hindi film industry & its audience imaginaries -- The fear of large numbers : the gentrification of audience imaginaries -- Epilogue: My name is Bollywood.
Introduction: Travels of Hindi song and dance / Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti -- Part I: Home terrains -- Tapping the mass market : the commercial life of Hindi film songs / Anna Morcom -- The sounds of modernity : the evolution of Bollywood film song / Biswarup Sen -- From Bombay to Bollywood : tracking cinematic and musical tours / Nilanjana Bhattacharjya and Monika Mehta -- Bollywood and beyond : the transnational economy of film production in Ramoji film city, Hyderbad / Shanti Kumar -- The music of intolerable love : political conjugality in Mani Ratnam's Dil se / Anustup Basu -- Part II: Eccentric orbits -- Intimate neighbors : Bollywood, dangdut music, and globalizing modernities in Indonesia / Bettina David -- The ubiquitous nonpresence of India : peripheral visions from Egyptian popular culture / Walter Armbrust -- Appropriating the uncodable : Hindi song and dance sequences in Israeli state promotional commercials / Ronie Parciack -- Part III: Planetary consciousness -- Dancing to an Indian beat : "Dola" goes my diasporic heart / Sangita Shresthova -- Food and cassettes : encounters with Indian filmsong / Edward K. Chan -- Queer as desis : secret politics of gender and sexuality in Bollywood films in diasporic urban ethnoscapes / Rajinder Dudrah -- Bollywood gets funky : American hip-hop, basement bhangra, and the racial politics of music / Richard Zumkhawala-Cook.
European cinema -- Scandinavian cinema -- Middle Eastern cinema -- Iranian cinema -- East Asian cinema -- Hong Kong cinema -- South Asian cinema -- Indian cinema.
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