Aesthetics of Disability: The Growing Interest in Disability in Popular Hindi Cinema by Swagata Chatterjee;

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Traveling Styles: Or the Challenge of Approaching Commercial Hindi Cinema as World Cinema by Alexandra Schneider

“…The article then asks if cinematic traditions can be understood in a comparative perspective, as the result of processes of mutual exchange, circulation and friction beyond the confines of a paradigm of national cinema, and along pathways of circulation not necessarily shaped and controlled by the supposedly inevitable forces of Western capitalism. Commercial Hindi cinema is used as a case study – the article in particular discusses the temporal-spatial constellation of Pakeezah (Pure One, Kamal Amrohi, 1972). …”
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Reimagining Witches in Contemporary Hindi Cinema: A Study of “Bulbbul” and “Roohi” by Riya Mukherjee, Suraj Gunwant

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Tapan K. Ghosh, Bollywood Baddies: Villains, Vamps and Henchmen in Hindi Cinema by Imke Rajamani

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Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema. Rajinder Dudrah by Elena Oliete Aldea

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Book Review: Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema by Usha Iyer (2020) by Sandhiya Kalyanasundaram

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Mental Illness in Indian Hindi Cinema: Production, Representation, and Reception before and After Media Convergence by Abhijit Pathak, Ramakrishna Biswal

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Multimodal signs in (non)heteronormative discourse of transnational Hindi cinema: the case study of Hindi film Dostana by Rizwan, Snobra

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Karachi to Mumbai via Bollywood Express by Fahad Naveed

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Coming of Age in the Diaspora: Bollywood and the Representation of Second Generation British Indian Diaspora by Utsa Mukherjee, Anil Pradhan, Ravinder Barn

Subjects: “…diaspora, bollywood, hindi cinema, british indian, gender…”
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The Songs of Pyaasa - A Narrative within a Narrative by Srijana Siri Murthy

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The Karma of Chicken Curry by Matta, Mara

Subjects: “…Exilic filmmaking. Hindi cinema. Hybridity. Tibetan diaspora…”
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Determinants of the spatial diffusion of Bollywood cinema by Parda Małgorzata

Subjects: “…bollywood cinema; popular hindi cinema…”
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The Sacred and the Profane in Omkara: Vishal Bhardwaj’s Hindi Adaptation of Othello by Lalita Pandit Hogan

Subjects: “…Cinematic Emotion, Micro-genre, Emotion Cues, Hindi Cinema, Omkara, Vishal Bhardwaj, Maqbool, Othello, Shakespeare…”
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Dealing with Colonial Past by Antonina Łuszczykiewicz

“…Moreover, the author explains, how modern Hindi cinema shapes Indian viewers’ opinions on the British rule, intending to strengthen their patriotic feelings and national pride.…”
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Bodies in Transition: by Hiya Chatterjee

“…Through the comparative study, the paper will try to explore if, and how, the representations of non-normative sexualities have changed in alternative and in regional cinema, despite the lack/misrepresentation of these individuals in mainstream Hindi cinema. In the process, the questions of the performativity of gender, self and identity, desire and resistance of the queer subject and queer bodies will be addressed against the backdrop of queer theory and queer politics in global as well as in local contexts.…”
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‘Shining Indians’: Diaspora and Exemplarity in Bollywood by Ingrid Therwath

“…Commercial Hindi cinema plays a central role in the negotiation of national identity. …”
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From Orthodoxy to the Universal Logic of Human Rights: A Case Study of Film Thappad (The Slap) by Sharma Navin, Tripathi Priyanka

“…This study investigates the incorporation of Universal Human Rights principles into the discourse of Hindi cinema. Through textual analysis of the film text, the paper examines how the film employs the language of rights as a counter-narrative against patriarchal ideologies, promoting gender equality and dignity within domestic settings. …”
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Framing the Subaltern: The Reemergence of the ‘Other’ in Neoliberal Indian Popular Cinema by Anu Thapa

“…Engaging with recent scholarships on Hindi cinema’s global ambitions, this paper brie y delves into the implications of the subaltern’s return to the notion of the ‘popular’ in Indian popular cinema. …”
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The 'Bollywoodization' of Popular Indian Visual Culture: A Critical Perspective by Keval Joseph Kumar

“…The history of Indian cinema is replete with films made in other genres and styles (e.g. social realism, satires, comedies, fantasy, horror, stunt) in the numerous languages of the country; however, it’s the popular Hindi cinema (now generally termed ‘Bollywood’) that has dominated national Indian cinema and its audiovisual culture and hegemonized the entire film industry as well as other popular technology-based art forms including the press, radio, television,  music, advertising, the worldwide web,  the social media, and telecommunications media. …”
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