TRAVELS OF BOLLYWOOD CINEMA (OIP)

From Bombay (Mumbai) and other production centres on the Indian subcontinent Indian popular cinema has travelled globally for nearly a century culminating in the Bollywood-inspired Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. This volume brings together perspectives on Indian popular cinema universally known as Bollywood now from different disciplinary and geographical locations to look afresh at national cinemas. It shows how Bollywood cinema has always crossed borders and boundaries: from the British Malaya Fiji Guyana Trinidad Mauritius and East and South Africa to the former USSR West Asia the UK the USA Canada and Australia. While looking at the meanings of nation diaspora home and identity in cinematic texts and contexts the essays also examine how localities are produced in the new global process by broadly addressing nationalism regionalism and transnationalism politics and aesthetics as well as spectatorship and viewing contexts.