Sangita Gopal Editor & Author

Rajinder Dudrah is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Screen Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. He has researched and published widely in film, media and cultural studies in international journals. His books include Bollywood: Sociology Goes to the Movies (2006), Bhangra: Birmingham and Beyond (2007), and The Bollywood Reader (2008). Sangita Gopal is an Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon, USA. She has researched and published in the fields of postcolonial studies, film studies and feminist theory. Her publications include an edited volume of essays, Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Film Music (2008) and Conjugations: Family and Film Form in New Bollywood Cinema (2011). She is currently working on a project entitled Mutant Media that looks at issues of intermediality and time in a postcolonial context. Amit S. Rai is Senior Lecturer in New Media and Communication at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. He has published across the range of queer, feminist, postcolonial, and media studies, increasingly focusing on questions of affect, sensation, technology, and political economy. He is the author of Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage (2009). He is currently at work on a study of Indian mobile phone media and its emergent ecology of sensation. Anustup Basu is Assistant Professor in English and Cinema Studies at University of Illinois, USA, at Urbana-Champaign. His essays on cinema, new media, and philosophy/politics of information have appeared in various international journals. He is the author of Bollywood in the Age of New Media: The Geo-televisual Aesthetic (2010).