Key changes have emerged in Bollywood in the new millennium. Twenty-First Century Bollywood traces the emerging shifts in both the content and form of Bollywood cinema and examines these new tendencies in relation to the changing dynamics of Indian culture. The book historically situates these emerging trends in relation to previous norms, and develops new, innovative paradigms for conceptualizing Bollywood in the twenty-first century.

Introduction: Bollywood in the Age of Digital Reproduction 1. Disassembling Bollywood: Coming to Terms with a Moniker and a Style 2. Reconstructing Femininity: From the Vamp to Bollywood's New Woman 3. The Gori in the Story: The Shifting Dynamics of Whiteness in Bollywood 4. Smooth as Silk: Metrosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Bollywood 5. Bollywood 101: Teaching Hindi Cinema in the West Conclusion, or Where Did my Bollywood Go? Bibliography Filmography Index

Ajay Gehlawat is Associate Professor of Theatre and Film at Sonoma State University