Ashish Rajadhyaksha is Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, and a critic and writer on cinema, art, and culture. He is author and editor (with Paul Willemen) of the Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema and author of Ritwik Ghatak: A Return to the Epic.

1. Introduction

PART I: THE 'CINEMA-EFFECT' OUTSIDE THE CINEMA: 'BOLLYWOOD' AND THE PERFORMING CITIZEN

2. 'Bollywood' 2004: The Globalized Freak Show of what was Cinema

3. When Was Bollywood?

4. The 'Cinema-Effect': Cultural Rights Vs. The Production Of Authenticity

5. Social Lineages of the Cinema-Effect: Demonstrating Spectatorial Ability

Afterword: Bollywood And The Cinema-Effect: A Concluding Note

PART II: ADMINISTERING THE SYMBOLS OF AUTHENTICITY-PRODUCTION: THE CINEMA-EFFECT AND THE STATE - AND REVISITING A 1990s CONTROVERSY

6. Administering The Symbols Of Authenticity-Production

7. 'You Can See Without Looking': The Cinematic 'Author' and Freedom Of Expression in the Cinema

8. 'People-Nation' And Spectatorial Rights: The Political 'Authenticity-Effect', the Shiv Sena and a Very Bombay History

PART III: 1970S QUESTIONS: THE CINEMA-EFFECT, THE NATIONAL SYMBOLIC AND THE AVANT-GARDE

9. The Nation Detours

10. The Indian Emergency

11. The Problem, and a 'Coproduction Of Modernities'

12. 'Taking' The Shot': Alternative Beginnings To The Mechanism

13. The Practice: Two Films And A Painting (1): Bhupen Khakhar's List

14. The Practice: Two Films And A Painting (2): Mani Kaul And The 'Cinematic Object' - Uski Roti

15. The Practice: Two Films And A Painting (3): Gautam Ghose's Maabhoomi, Territorial Realism And The 'Narrator'