List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction; Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra PART I: EXPLORING THE OTHER: CINEMA, AESTHETICS, PHILOSOPHY 1. Self, Other and Bollywood: The Evolution of the Hindi Film as a Site of Ambivalence Dibyakusum Ray 2. Bombay Cinema's Aesthetic Other: Hindi Shastriya Cinema in Retrospect; Parichay Patra PART II: DIASPORA AND THE FORMATION OF THE GLOBAL BOLLYWOOD 3. Transgressing the Moral Universe: Bollywood and the Terrain of the Representable; Sarah A. Joshi 4. A Perfect Match: Entertainment and Excess of Cricket within the Diasporic Experience of Bollywood; Sanchari De and Manas Ghosh PART III: THE MUSICALITY OF BOLLYWOOD: POSSIBILITIES OF ALTERNATIVE READING(S) 5. Hindi Popular Cinema and Its Peripheries: Of Female Singers, Approaches, and the Presence/Absence of Suraiya; Madhuja Mukherjee 6. 'Dil Dance Maare Re': Bollywoodisation of the Indian Folk Dance Forms; Vikrant Kishore 7. The Systems Model of Creativity and Indian Film: A Study of Two Young Music Directors from Kerala, India; Phillip McIntyre, Bob Davis, and Vikrant Kishore PART IV: BOLLYWOOD'S OTHER(S): SEXUALITY, B MOVIE, QUEERNESS 8. Sugar and Spice: The Golden Age of the Hindi Movie Vamps, 1960s-70s; Suneeti Rekhari 9. Popular Forms, Altering Normativities: Queer Buddies in Contemporary Mainstream Hindi Cinema; Aneeta Rajendran 10. Hinglish Cinema: The Confluence of East and West in Bollywood; Prateek and Amit Sarwal 11. The Ramsay Chronicles: Non-normative Sexualities in Purana Mandir and Bandh Darwaza; Mithuraaj Dhusiya 12. Bollywood's Encounters with the Third Kind: A Critical Catalogue of Hindi Science Fiction Films; Sami Ahmad Khan PART V: BOLLYWOOD'S OTHER, INDIA'S OTHER 13. Death Becomes Her: Bombay Cinema, Nation and Kashmir - In conversation with Desire Machine Collective, Guwahati; Kaushik Bhaumik Afterword; Anupam Sharma Index
