How do we define the globalized cinema and media cultures of Bollywood in an age when it has become part of the cultural diplomacy of an emerging superpower? Bollywood and Its Other(s) explores the aesthetic-philosophical questions of the other through, for example, discussions on Indian diaspora's negotiations with national identity.

Kaushik Bhaumik, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, IndiaBob Davis, Leeds Metropolitan University, UKSanchari De, Jadavpur University, IndiaMithuraaj Dhusiya, University of Delhi, IndiaManas Ghosh, Jadavpur University, IndiaSami Ahmad Khan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, IndiaVikrant Kishore, University of Newcastle, AustraliaSarah Joshi, Birkbeck College, University of London, UKPhillip McIntyre, University of Newcastle, AustraliaMadhuja Mukherjee, Jadavpur University, IndiaParichay Patra, Monash University, AustraliaPrateek, University of Delhi, IndiaAneeta Rajendran, Gargi College, University of Delhi, IndiaDibyakusum Ray, English and Foreign Languages University, IndiaSuneeti Rekhari, Deakin University, AustraliaAmit Sarwal, Deakin University, AustraliaAnupam Sharma, Filmmaker and Author, Australia

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 Studyof 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