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The "Bollywoodization" of the Indian cinema : cultural nationalism in a global arena / Ashish Rajadhyaksha -- Surviving Bollywood / M. Madhava Prasad -- Mumbai versus Bollywood : the Hindi film industry and the politics of cultural heritage in contemporary India / Tejaswini Ganti -- Hollywood, Bollywood, Tollywood : redefining the global in Indian cinema / Shanti Kumar -- The globalization of "Bollywood"--the hype and hope / Daya Kishan Thussu -- Our violence, their violence : exploring the emotional and relational matrix of terrorist cinema / Vamsee Juluri -- Exoticized, marginalized, demonized : the Muslim "other" in Indian cinema / Kalyani Chadha and Anandam P. Kavoori -- The mirror has many faces : the politics of male same-sex desire in BOMgAY and Gulabi Aaina / Parmesh Shahani -- "Bring back the old films, our culture is in disrepute": Hindi film and the construction of femininity in Guyana / Atticus Narain -- "From villain to traditional housewife!" : the politics of globalization and women's sexuality in the "new" Indian media / Padma Govindan and Bisakha Dutta -- Songs from the heart : musical coding, emotional sentiment, and transnational sonic identity in India's popular film music / Natalie Sarazzin -- Deewar/Wall (1975)--fact, fiction, and the making of a superstar / Jyotika Virdi -- The Indian film magazine, Stardust / Rachel Dwyer -- Bollyweb : search for Bollywood on the web and see what happens! / Ananda Mitra -- "We're online, not on the streets" : Indian cinema, new media, and participatory culture / Aswin Punathambekar -- Afterword : fast-forwarding into the future, haunted by the past : Bollywood today / Arvind Rajagopal.