CONTENTS

List of Illustrations and Tables

Acknowledgments

Preface: The Social Work of Cinema

1. BOLLYWOOD’S INDIA

Making India

Remaking India I

Remaking India II

Unmaking “India”

2. CINEMA AS PUBLIC FANTASY

“Two Dynasties That Rule the Nation’s Popular Imagination”

Police and Thieves

Career Opportunities

3. CINEMA AS FAMILY ROMANCE

Film, Family, and Family Romance

Deewaar, the Manifest Narrative

“India is Indira”

4. BOLLYWOOD, BOLLYLITE

The World According to Bollywood

The World According to Hollywood

Bollylite in America

EPILOGUE: ANTHEM FOR A NEW INDIA

Notes

Filmography

Bibliography

Index