Content tagged "bombay"
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Posted by Aswin Punathambekar S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2003
From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry
The transformation of the national film industry in Bombay into a transnational and multi-media cultural enterprise, which has come to be known as Bollywood.
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Posted by Parmesh Shahani S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2005
Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporary India
Using a combination of multi-sited ethnography, textual analysis, historical documentation analysis, and memoir writing, Parmesh Shahani provides macro and micro perspectives on what it means to be a gay man located in Gay Bombay.
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Posted by Parmesh Shahani S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2005
Topics: bombay, ethnicity, ethnography, gay bombay, globalization, homosexuality, India, media, memoirDisco Jalebi: An Ethnographic Exploration of Gay Bombay
I explore what being gay means to the members of Gay Bombay and how they negotiate locality and globalization, their sense of identity as well as a feeling of community within its online/offline world.