...Gayatri Gopinath Duke University Press 2005 Bollywood Spectacles QUEER DI A SPORIC CRITIQUE IN THE AFTERM ATH OF 9/11 Since 9/11, South Asian racialization in the United...

... though significant attention has been paid to the transnational traffic of Bollywood, the insufficiency of the celebratory impulse riding it to explain the variety of Hindi film production forces us to acknowledge and unpack the complex entanglement of capital, form, stardom, and gentrification through...

... the infl ux of MTV and other satellite music channels in the 1990s. Now Bollywood music (as Bombay fi lm music is increasingly being called) gets Provincializing the Global City 71 recited in the ever-expanding arena...

... and the politics of representation (in Screen, Harvard Asia Quarterly, Samarr, and Humanscape). His current research and writing focus on affect and the haptic in the cinematic assemblage of a globalizing Bollywood. Tiziana Terranova lectures on the sociology of media and culture at the University of Essex...

... studying second-generation South Asian Americans and their consump- tion of Indian and Bollywood cinema. Mark Franko is the author of The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s (Wesleyan University Press), Dancing Modernism/Per- forming Politics (Indiana University Press), Dance...

... since the 1980s and also the new globalized cinematic commodity assimilated under the category of “Planet Bollywood,” Bend It Like Beckham is set in the outskirts of Lon- don near Heathrow airport and foregrounds the stereotypical culture-clash narrative: soccer-loving Jess faces off with both...

... and configuring ideology itself.20 These variously border-crossing texts — a Bollywood film such as Randhir Kapoor’sHenna , novels such as Mumtaz Shah Nawaz’s The Heart Divided and Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories, short stories such as Altaf Fatima’s “The Walls Weep...

... Asylum in the Context of Family Rights Chandan Reddy 101 Queer Times, Queer Assemblages Jasbir K. Puar 121 Race, Violence, and Neoliberal Spatial Politics in the Global City Martin F. Manalansan IV 141 Bollywood Spectacles: Queer...

... ences as fitting into a teleology of underdeveloped South Asian feminist and queer sexual politics. 5. Earth (2000) was released a few years after Fire (1996). Made in Hindi with Nandita Das, Aamir Khan, and other Bollywood...

... to this special issue, “Bollywood Spectacles: Queer Diasporic Critique in the Aftermath of 9/11,” Gayatri Gopinath delin- eates the methodology of queer diasporic critique through figurations of the impure, the inauthentic...

... sense of identifi cation between the two cultures is also explained in terms of Bollywood’s alterity from American and British fi lm and television and its depiction of moral problems that are simply absent 100 Brian Larkin from most Western media.29...

..., of the surgery’s aftermath amidst this rebirth. Our interviews in Mumbai unfolded as atyachaar gained more traction in the city’s parlance, perhaps due in part to the Bollywood filmDev D, whose sound track includes a song called “Emotional Atyachaar.” The 82...

... Bollywood hagiographic melodrama, won precisely because she was not entailed in the economic machinations of local politicos. Her political capital was built from her refusal to amass economic capital and to kowtow to regional extortionist power...

... to Hollywood, Bollywood, as well as many other third-world film industries, Egyptian film has very rarely involved the explicit thematization of blood, horror, and violent death.36 A culture of death? Yes, but clearly not in the sense usually implied by anti-Muslim pundits like Ayaan Hirsi Ali...

... and impoverished, with active Maoist and separatist movements. People here often identify less culturally with the Indian mainland than with China and Tibet. Even Bollywood has little influence here. The population is largely tribal and Christian. A Times of India reporter had been wanting for months to take...

..., cabaret, a Japanese ballad, a reenact- ment of scenes from Phantom of the Opera, a Muslim marriage ritual, and several traditional Filipino folkdances. (In the past there were also numbers based on ancient Egypt, American-­style cheerleading, Bollywood...

..., be discerned through the action-attraction movies produced by Hollywood, Bollywood, or Hong Kong cinema as analyzed by Simon During, suggests a series of related particularities and material practices rather than any grand narra...