The book examines the historical and spatial flows of Indian popular cinema from Bombay (Mumbai) and other production centres on the Indian subcontinent to different spaces of consumption for nearly a century culminating in the Bollywood-inspired-Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. Bringing together essays by eminent scholars of anthropology, history, and cultural, media, communication, and film studies, this volume shows that Bollywood cinema has always crossed borders and boundaries. The book argues that Bollywood has had a century-long history of travelling to the British Malaya, Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad, Mauritius, East and South Africa with the old diasporas, and with and without the new diasporas to the former USSR, West Asia, the UK, the USA, Canada, and Australia. It brings together perspectives on Indian cinema from different disciplinary and geographical locations to re-conceptualize the understanding of national cinemas. The book looks at the meaning of nation, diaspora, home, and identity in cinematic texts and contexts, and examines the ways in which localities are produced in the new global process by broadly addressing nationalism, regionalism, and transnationalism, politics and aesthetics, and spectatorship and viewing contexts.Table of Contents: 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