| Title: | A 'Basement' Cinephilia. Indian Diaspora Women Watch Bollywood |
| Author: | Nandini Bhattacharya |
| Publication: | South Asian Popular Culture / Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group |
| Enumeration: | Vol. 2, No. 2,pp. 161 - 183 , October 2004 |
| Abstract: | This article results from survey-based research on the actual and situated viewing practices of Indian diaspora women who watch Bollywood. I argue that they thereby construct - and not merely consume - new definitions of national and diasporic identity and motherhood through this mediation. Further, I argue that the personal and communal identities constructed by diaspora female Bollywood-watchers are not merely nostalgic, but a complex amalgam of their responses to the porosity and ambiguity of the medium of Bollywood film.
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