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Anthem Press India Bollywood and Globalization Indian Popular Cinema Nation by Rinni Bhattacharya and
bollywood and globalization commercial cinema has always been one of the biggest indigenous industries in india, and remains so in the post-globalization era, when the indian economy has entered a new phase of global participation, liberalization and expansion issues of community, gender, society and social and economic justice, bourgeois-liberal individualism, secular nationhood and ethnic identity are nowhere more explored in the indian cultural mainstream than in commercial cinema as indian economy and policy have gone through a sea-change after the end of the cold war and the commencement of the global capital, the largest cultural industry has followed suit for example, the global indian community (known in indian official terms as the non-resident indian or the nri) has become an integral part of the cultural representation of india the politics and ideology of indian commercial cinema has become extremely complex, offering a fascinating case-study to scholars of global culture of particular interest is the positioning of individual identity vis-?-vis nation, religion, class, and gender the definition of nationhood and/ or community has become much more fluid, keeping in tune with sweeping universal claims of globalization; the films have consequently revised the scope of the narratives to match indias emerging global business ambitions bollywood and globalization is a significant scholarly contribution to the current debate on indian cinema, nationhood and global culture the articles represent a variety of theoretical and pedagogical approaches, and the collection will be appreciated by students and scholars alike about the authors: rini bhattacharya, rajeshwari v pandharipande rini bhattacharya mehta is visiting assistant professor of comparative and world literature at the university of illinois, urbana-champaign she has published articles on the politics of religion in nineteenth century and early twentieth century bengal