A Basement Cinephilia. Indian Diaspora women watch Bollywood
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This article results from surveybased 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 Bollywoodwatchers are not merely nostalgic, but a complex amalgam of their responses to the porosity and ambiguity of the medium of Bollywood film. 2004 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All right reserved.
