From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry

by Aswin Punathambekar

Book Overview

From Bombay to Bollywood analyzes the transformation of the national film industry in Bombay into a transnational and multi-media cultural enterprise, which has come to be known as Bollywood. Combining ethnographic, institutional, and textual analyses, Aswin Punathambekar explores how relations between state institutions, the Indian diaspora, circuits of capital, and new media technologies and industries have reconfigured the Bombay-based industry's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814729495
• ISBN13: 9780814729496
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"