Description:
This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.
Review Quotes:
'Bhattacharya's introduction underscores the salient role of economic liberalisation in shaping the Bombay film industry and its narratives... The contributions [draw] our attention to changes in genre and industrial contexts, the (re)production of the new on-screen patriarch, the dominance of Bhangra and the Punjabi body in Hindi films, screen patriotism and violence, the emergence of assertive female desire and queer sexuality as well as the rise of a 'new ethics of individualism, enjoyment and freedom'... As a whole, 'Bollywood and Globalization' increases our understanding of post-liberalisation Hindi film.' -Monika Mehta, Binghamton University, in the 'Journal of Intercultural Studies'