This book examines Slumdog Millionaire as an articulation of multiple mobilities of globalization, tourism, cinematic representation, transnational artistic collaboration and activism.

Rodanthi Tzanelli is Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK.

Part I: Slumdog Metaphors of Globalisation 1. Globalisation as Serendipitous Adaptation 2. The Nexus of Theory and Methodology 3. A Slumdog Industrial Community Part II: Reading Slumdog Millionaire 4. Staging Slumdog: From Realist Fiction to 'Ethical' Acting 5. The Cinematic Text Scene-by-Scene 6. The Frail Dialogics of Pop Participation Part III: A Plural Slumdog Kósmos 7. Tourist Modernities: SM's Multiple Sites as Fields 8. The Virtual Journeys of Slumdog Millionaire 9. Slumdog Economies of Modernity 10. Conclusion