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Indian Film Stars: New Critical Perspectives

London: Bloomsbury;British Film Institute (bfi);BFI Publishing (2020), xvi, 243 pp.
"Indian Film Stars offers original insights and important reappraisals of film stardom in India from the early talkie era of the 1930s to the contemporary period of global blockbusters. The collection represents a substantial intervention to our understanding of the development of film star cultures ... more
"Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases provides a clear and engaging overview of media communication from a global and a region-based perspective. Rather than focusing on just complex theories and industry-specific analyses, this unique book offers an inclusive, comparative approach to both journa ... more

National Conference on Indian Cinema: Past, Present & Future. 8th and 9th January 2016

Thane (IN): VPM’s Joshi Bedekar College Film Society & Department of Mass Media;VPM’s Joshi-Bedekar College (2016), x, 177 pp.
"This study examined the relationship between exposure to Bollywood movies and job-seeking behavior of South Asian females. Using survey data collected from 132 female participants, we explored the effects of exposure to Bollywood movies on job search self-efficacy, enjoyment and job-seeking behavio ... more
"Das Thema „Bollywood“ ist in aller Munde, aber Indiens Kino-kultur ist mehr als Bollywood. Dieses Buch verschafft einen Überblick über das facettenreiche Filmwerk Indiens. Die Beiträge befassen sich mit Männerbildern im indischen Kino, mit der Symbolik und Ästhetik von Naturphänomenen, mi ... more

Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema

London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2013), x, 268 pp.

Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas

London; New York: Routledge (2013), xv, 470 pp.
"After years of marginalization by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the center of world cinema in a comparatively short space of time. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars in the field, this Handbook looks at the complex reasons for thi ... more
"Daya Thussu's book rescues the concept of soft power from American hands and applies it insightfully to India, and the concept is made richer and more useful as a result. With its dynamic and prosperous diaspora, the growing global popularity of its spiritual beliefs and practice, its reach as a gl ... more
"En las décadas de 1970 y 1980 varias salas limeñas se llenaban de familias que iban a ver las largas y melodramáticas producciones de cine que llegaban desde la India. Hoy esas salas ya no existen, pero eso no impide que la incidencia del cine indio se haya mantenido –dvd piratas mediante– n ... more
»Bollyworld Neukölln« ist nicht nur die erste umfassende Studie zum Hindi-Kino in Deutschland, die spezifische, inoffizielle und migrantische Rezeptionswege mitberücksichtigt, sondern zeigt auch neue empirische Perspektiven auf Migranten und Medien auf. Anstatt MigrantInnen unreflektiert nach be ... more

The Magic of Bollywood: At Home and Abroad

New Delhi; Thousand Oaks: Sage (2012), xviii, 334 pp.
"This anthology aims to portray the “soft” power of Bollywood, which makes it a unique and powerful disseminator of Indian culture and values abroad. The essays in the book examine Bollywood's popularity within and outside South Asia, focusing on its role in international relations and diplomacy ... more

Indian Media: Global Approaches

Cambridge: Polity Press (2012), v, 186 pp.
"The very rapid growth in the Indian media industries and the vibrancy of India's popular culture are making a working understanding of the Indian scene a prerequisite for any serious study of media in the twenty-first century. As one of the largest and most influential emerging economies in the wor ... more

Understanding Bollywood

In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Robert S. Fortner; Mark Fackler (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 577-601
"This essay brings together four key elements of Bollywood cinema: 1. the lure of the mythological; 2. the allure of the Muslim courtesan, and Urdu, Bollywood's language of love; 3. the hegemony of melodrama; and 4. the persistence of song and dance." (Page 577)

Indian Media in a Globalised World

New Delhi et al.: Sage (2010), xix, 275 pp.
"This book explores the transformation of Indian media in the context of two major developments: globalization, which has introduced what are termed as ‘foreign’ elements to Indian culture, and the opening of the floodgates for foreign media to enter the country. It discusses both theoretical co ... more

Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2010), xiv, 226 pp.
"This innovative, interdisciplinary collection of essays by scholars based in Europe and the United States offers stimulating approaches to the role played by religion in present-day South Asia." (Publisher description)
"Ashish Rajadhyaksha argues that any exploration of the social uses to which cinema is put in a place like India can only make sense if it transforms our understanding of cinema itself. Taking as his timeframe the era of celluloid, which is also marked by public experiences of spectatorship and uses ... more
"Bollywood ist nicht nur ein Lifestylephänomen, auch die Wissenschaft beschäftigt sich zunehmend mit indischer Populärkultur. An der Universität Wien findet seit Jahren wichtige Forschung zu diesem Thema statt. Dieser Sammelband vereint Beiträge aus so unterschiedlichen Disziplinen wie Kultur- ... more

Popular Culture in a Globalised India

London; New York: Routledge (2009), xviii, 285 pp.