'Reading Bollywood': the young audience and Hindi films

Reading 'Bollywood' explores the connections between representations of gender, sexuality and ethnicity in Hindi films, socio-political contexts and the construction of gender, sexual and ethnic identity by young audience members in India and the UK. Extended excerpts from in-depth interviews with young viewers, observations and original photographs provide insights about spectatorship as well as material for comparison with theories about Hindi film and studies of film audiences and popular culture worldwide.