Acknowledgements ; The Bollywood Turn in South Asian Cinema: National, Transnational, or Global? ; Anjali Gera Roy and Chua Beng Huat ; PART 1. MODERNITY, GLOBALIZATION, GLOBALITY ; 1.Bollywood, Postcolonial Transformation, and Modernity ; Bill Ashcroft ; 2.Cultural Flows, Travelling Shows: Bombay Talkies, ; Global Times ; Makarand Paranjape ; 3.Mustard Fields, Exotic Tropes, and Travels through ; Meandering Pathways: Reframing the Yash Raj Trajectory ; Madhuja Mukherjee ; PART 2. LOVE ACROSS THE BORDER ; 4.The Lahore Film Industry: A Historical Sketch ; Ishtiaq Ahmed ; 5.From Chandigarh to Vancouver: Reimagining Home and ; Identity in the Films of Harbhajan Mann ; Nicola Mooney ; 6.Bollywood, Tollywood, Dollywood: Re-visiting Cross-border ; Flows and the Beat of the 1970s in the Context of Globalization ; Anuradha Ghosh ; 7.Cinematic Border Crossings in Two Bengals: Cultural Translation as Communalization? ; Zakir Hossain Raju ; PART 3. THE OTHER FILM INDUSTRY ; 8.Region, Language, and Indian Cinema: Mysore and Kannada ; Language Cinema of the 1950s ; M.K. Raghavendra ; 9.Modernity and Male Anxieties in Early Malayalam Cinema ; Meena T. Pillai ; 10.Cinema in Motion: Tracking Tamil Cinema's Assemblage ; Vijay Devadas and Selvaraj Velayutham ; PART 4. VILLAGE IN THE CITY ; 11.Migrant, Diaspora, NRI: Bhojpuri Cinema and the 'Local in the Global' ; D. Parthasarathy ; 12.Welcome to Sajjanpur: Theatre and Transnational Hindi Cinema ; Nandi Bhatia ; PART 5. THE TRAVELS OF BOLLYWOOD CINEMA: ; FROM BOMBAY TO LA ; 13.Diasporic Bollywood: In the Tracks of a Twice-displaced Community ; Manas Ray ; 14.Marketing, Hybridity, and Media Industries: Globalization and Expanding Audiences for Popular Hindi Cinema ; Kavita Karan and David J. Schaefer ; 15.'It Was Filmed in My Home Town': Diasporic Audiences and Foreign Locations in Indian Popular Cinema ; Andrew Hassam ; 16.Yaari with Angrez: Whiteness for a New Bollywood Hero ; Teresa Hubel ; 17.Bollywood Films and African Audiences ; Gwenda Vander Steene ; 18.From Ghetto to Mainstream: Bollywood in/and South Africa ; Haseenah Ebrahim ; List of Contributors ; Index

Focuses on how Bollywood cinema has always crossed borders and boundaries 18 essays by scholars of film, media, communication, and cultural studies, anthropology, and history Detailed Introduction by editors

Anjali Gera Roy is Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur, and Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Chua Beng Huat is concurrently Leader, Cultural Studies in Asia Research Cluster; Convenor, PhD Programme in Cultural Studies in Asia; and Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.

Focuses on how Bollywood cinema has always crossed borders and boundaries 18 essays by scholars of film, media, communication, and cultural studies, anthropology, and history Detailed Introduction by editors