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Global Screen Worlds: Conversations across Cinema Cultures
New York et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2026), xx, 348 pp.
"Global Screen Worlds brings together scholars from around the world to collaborate on comparative studies of specific African and Asian cinemas and audiovisual narrative media. This open access collection advances the concept of "screen worlds" rather than "world cinema" to acknowledge and recko
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"Indian Film Stars offers original insights and important reappraisals of film stardom in India from the early talkie era of the 1930s to the contemporary period of global blockbusters. The collection represents a substantial intervention to our understanding of the development of film star cultures
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Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases
Newark: Wiley (2019), ix, 246 pp.
"Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases provides a clear and engaging overview of media communication from a global and a region-based perspective. Rather than focusing on just complex theories and industry-specific analyses, this unique book offers an inclusive, comparative approach to both journa
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Learning Through Entertainment: The Effects of Bollywood Movies on the Job-Seeking Behavior of South Asian Female
International Communication Gazette, volume 78, issue 3 (2016), pp. 267-287
"This study examined the relationship between exposure to Bollywood movies and job-seeking behavior of South Asian females. Using survey data collected from 132 female participants, we explored the effects of exposure to Bollywood movies on job search self-efficacy, enjoyment and job-seeking behavio
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Indiens Kino-Kulturen: Geschichte, Dramaturgie, Ästhetik
Marburg: Schüren (2014), 356 pp.
"Das Thema „Bollywood“ ist in aller Munde, aber Indiens Kino-kultur ist mehr als Bollywood. Dieses Buch verschafft einen Überblick über das facettenreiche Filmwerk Indiens. Die Beiträge befassen sich mit Männerbildern im indischen Kino, mit der Symbolik und Ästhetik von Naturphänomenen, mi
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Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2013), x, 268 pp.
Communicating India's Soft Power: Buddha to Bollywood
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), 227 pp.
"Daya Thussu's book rescues the concept of soft power from American hands and applies it insightfully to India, and the concept is made richer and more useful as a result. With its dynamic and prosperous diaspora, the growing global popularity of its spiritual beliefs and practice, its reach as a gl
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Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas
London; New York: Routledge (2013), xv, 470 pp.
"After years of marginalization by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the center of world cinema in a comparatively short space of time. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars in the field, this Handbook looks at the complex reasons for thi
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Bollyworld Neukölln: MigrantInnen und Hindi-Filme in Deutschland
Konstanz; München: UVK (2012), 312 pp.
»Bollyworld Neukölln« ist nicht nur die erste umfassende Studie zum Hindi-Kino in Deutschland, die spezifische, inoffizielle und migrantische Rezeptionswege mitberücksichtigt, sondern zeigt auch neue empirische Perspektiven auf Migranten und Medien auf. Anstatt MigrantInnen unreflektiert nach be
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Indian Media: Global Approaches
Cambridge: Polity Press (2012), v, 186 pp.
"The very rapid growth in the Indian media industries and the vibrancy of India's popular culture are making a working understanding of the Indian scene a prerequisite for any serious study of media in the twenty-first century. As one of the largest and most influential emerging economies in the wor
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The Magic of Bollywood: At Home and Abroad
New Delhi; Thousand Oaks: Sage (2012), xviii, 334 pp.
"This anthology aims to portray the “soft” power of Bollywood, which makes it a unique and powerful disseminator of Indian culture and values abroad. The essays in the book examine Bollywood's popularity within and outside South Asia, focusing on its role in international relations and diplomacy
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Bollywood en Perú: Culturas populares y globalización de las emociones
Nueva Sociedad, issue 241 (2012), pp. 133-148
"En las décadas de 1970 y 1980 varias salas limeñas se llenaban de familias que iban a ver las largas y melodramáticas producciones de cine que llegaban desde la India. Hoy esas salas ya no existen, pero eso no impide que la incidencia del cine indio se haya mantenido –dvd piratas mediante– n
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Understanding Bollywood
In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 577-601
"This essay brings together four key elements of Bollywood cinema: 1. the lure of the mythological; 2. the allure of the Muslim courtesan, and Urdu, Bollywood's language of love; 3. the hegemony of melodrama; and 4. the persistence of song and dance." (Page 577)
Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2010), xiv, 226 pp.
"This innovative, interdisciplinary collection of essays by scholars based in Europe and the United States offers stimulating approaches to the role played by religion in present-day South Asia." (Publisher description)
Indian Media in a Globalised World
New Delhi et al.: Sage (2010), xix, 275 pp.
"This book explores the transformation of Indian media in the context of two major developments: globalization, which has introduced what are termed as ‘foreign’ elements to Indian culture, and the opening of the floodgates for foreign media to enter the country. It discusses both theoretical co
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Fokus Bollywood: Das indische Kino in wissenschaftlichen Diskursen
Wien et al.: Lit (2009), 184 pp.
"Bollywood ist nicht nur ein Lifestylephänomen, auch die Wissenschaft beschäftigt sich zunehmend mit indischer Populärkultur. An der Universität Wien findet seit Jahren wichtige Forschung zu diesem Thema statt. Dieser Sammelband vereint Beiträge aus so unterschiedlichen Disziplinen wie Kultur-
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Popular Culture in a Globalised India
London; New York: Routledge (2009), xviii, 285 pp.
