Salaam Bollywood: Representations and Interpretations

Salaam Bollywood: Introduction / Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra

Part I: Histories: Mainstream and Alternative
1. Myths, Markets and Panics: Speculating about the Proto-Cinematic Historical Significance of the Popularity of Two Parsi Theatre Plays at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Kaushik Bhaumik
2.The Left Encounter: Progressive Voices of Nationalism and Indian Cinema to the 1950s / Binayak Bhattacharya
3. Genre Mixing as Creative Fabrication / M. Madhava Prasad
4. What Do the Villains Have? Indian Cinema’s Villains in the 1970s / Hariprasad Athanickal
5. Inward Bound: Self-referentiality in Bombay Cinema / Prateek

Part II: Bollywood Dance: Re-reading History
6. Dancing to the Songs: History of Dance in Popular Hindi Films / Shruti Ghosh
7. Designing the Song and Dance Sequences: Exploring Bollywood’s Cinematic Creativity / Vikrant Kishore and Susan Kerrigan
8. The Item Girl: Tradition and Transgression in Bollywood Dancing / Amita Nijhawan

Part III: Changes in the City Scape, Changes in Cinema
9. Regionalist Disjuncture in Bollywood: Dabangg and the Consumerist Cinema / Hrishikesh Ingle
10. Mourning and Blood-Ties: Macbeth in Mumbai / Moinak Biswas
11. Black Friday: A Screen History of the 1993 Bombay Bomb Blasts / Rajdeep Roy
12. The Re-Mapped Dialectics of Contemporary Indian Cinema: Kahaani and That Girl in Yellow Boots / Shaheen S. Ahmed

Part IV: Other Regions, Other Nations
13. Marking out the "South" in/of Hindi Cinema: An Approach via Remakes / Nikhila H.
14. Between Solidarity and the Stereotype: Chandni Chowk to China / S. V. Srinivas
15. The Khan Mania: Universal Appeal of Superstar Shahrukh Khan in a Post-globalized Bollywood Era / Sony Jalarajan Raj, Rohini Sreekumar and Fikri Jermadi
16. Old Wine in a New Bottle: Bollywood Films Shot in Australia after 9/11 / Sanchari De and Amit Sarwal
17. The Way Cinema was Banished: The Intervention of Cinema Studies in India / Parichay Patra