ABSTRACT

A study of Bombay Cinema, or the so-called Bollywood, will no longer be complete without looking at the consumption of Bollywood movies because this cinema is now global in a specifically diasporic sense. This paper is an attempt to unveil the nature of engagement between Bollywood movies and second-generation Indian diaspora. This study is based on the coming of age of the second generation of the Indian-American diaspora and their engagement with twenty-first century Bollywood movies. A group of young Indian Americans were interviewed over the telephone to find out the ways in which second-generation consume movies in comparison to that of the first-generation migrants. This article shows how their readings of Bollywood movies converge on themes of nostalgia, nation, and feminism, along with how their situational identities play out to resolve their sometimes contradictory cultural expectations.

摘要

如果不考虑宝莱坞电影的消费情况，对孟买电影或所谓的宝莱坞的研究将不再完整，因为从特定的侨民意义上说，这种电影院现在已经是全球性的。本文试图揭示宝莱坞电影与第二代印度侨民之间的互动性质。这项研究基于第二代印度裔美国侨民的成长以及他们对二十一世纪宝莱坞电影的参与。一群年轻的印度裔美国人通过电话接受了采访，以了解与第一代移民相比，第二代消费电影的方式。这篇文章展示了他们对宝莱坞电影的阅读如何融合怀旧、民族和女权主义等主题，