Bollyworld: Popular Indian Cinema through a Transnational Lens

This book explores the transnational networks of India’s cinema in respect to its production, narratives and reception. It offers one section, Topographies, which focuses on the globalised audio-visual economies within which the technologies and aesthetics of India’s commercial cinema developed. Another section of the book explores the belief that the ‘national fantasy’ of Indian commercial cinema is "an unstable construction." The last section, Travels, focuses on the overseas reception of Indian cinema with ethnographic case studies from Germany, Guyana, the USA, South Africa, Nigeria and Britain.