Bollyworld: Popular Indian Cinema Through A Transnational Lens by Raminder Kaur
The twelve essays track the intra-national and trans-national movements of Bollywood cinema. Divided into three sections, the first discusses the technology and aesthetics of Indias commercial cinema as it developed in the period that spans the silents from 1913 to the advent of the talkies in 1931.
The second section studies these films as local, intertextual manifestations of globalization and highlights the changes in post-liberalization cinema. Against the backdrop of economic liberalization, the institutionalization of multiculturalism and a strong voice of migrant Indian populations, the third section focuses on the overseas reception of Indian films.