The one thing in life that we can be certain of–in addition to death and taxes–is
impermanence. Everything changes: our world changes and we change with it. And so it is …

For'ethnic minorities' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national
and'western'culture. In Southall-which has the largest population of'South Asians' outside …

Front Cover Chris Barker's book introduces a postmodernist and cultural studies approach to
media studies for" undergraduate and postgraduate courses". Writing introductory material …

India is home to Bollywood-the largest film industry in the world. Movie theaters are said to
be the" temples of modern India," with Bombay producing nearly 800 films per year that are …

The largest film industry in the world after Hollywood is celebrated in this updated and
expanded edition of a now classic work of reference. Covering the full range of Indian film …

The sight of a 15 ft image of Sridevi, dancing erotically on the screens of the open-air
cinemas of northern Nigeria, or the tall, angular figure of Amitabh Bachchan radiating …

Interest in the area of diaspora and communication has been steadily increasing since the
mid-1990s. The idea for this collection orginated at the 1998 conference of the International …

This volume is the first fully comprehensive account of film production in the Third World.
Although they are usually ignored or marginalized in histories of world cinema," Third World …

Several interrelated journeys have taken me in the direction of this book. The first is my love
for popular Bombay cinema. Film was for me, like most South Asians, a childhood passion …

t has now been a long while since the conventional, pejorative connotations of melodrama
have been unsettled. In popular critical parlance the word is still used to dismiss films for …