Introduction: The Horizon of Media Studies, Ravi Sundaram -- PART ONE: MAPPING THE TERRAIN -- 1. The 'Bollywoodization' of the Indian Cinema: Cultural Nationalism in a Global Arena / Ashish Rajadhyaksha -- 2. Sensuous Encounters: Law, Affect, and the Media Event / Lawrence Liang -- 3. The Inner and Outer Worlds of Emergent Television Cultures / Shohini Ghosh -- PART TWO: CIRCULATION -- 4. Mission, Money, and Machinery: Indian Newspapers in the Twentieth Century / Robin Jeffrey -- 5. Revisiting the Pirate Kingdom / Ravi Sundaram -- 6. Figures of Transit: Tracing a Century of Hollywood in India / Nitin Govil -- PART THREE: PUBLICS -- 7. Creating Cinema's Reading Publics: The Emergence of Film Journalism in Bombay / Debashree Mukherjee -- 8. Notes on Contemporary Film Experience: 'Bollywood', Genre Diversity, and Video Circuits / Ravi S. Vasudevan -- 9. Whistling Fans: Reflections on the Sociology, Politics, and Performativity of an Excessively Active Audience / S.V. Srinivas -- 10. Unimaginable Communities: Television, Globalization, and National Identities in Postcolonial India / Shanti Kumar -- 11. The Imagined Reign of the Iron Lecturer: Village Broadcast in Colonial India / Joselyn Zivin -- 12. The 'Terrorist' and the Screen: Afterimages of the Batla House 'Encounter' / Shuddhabrata Sengupta -- PART FOUR: PRODUCTION -- 13. The Gramophone Company in India, 1898-1912: The Evolution of an Early Media Enterprise / Vibodh Parthasarthy -- 14. Democratizing Indian Popular Music: From Cassette Culture to the Digital Era / Peter Manuel -- 15. Film Stardom after Liveness / Ranjani Mazumdar.