"Within a rapidly growing body of sophisticated work on Indian cinema, media, and popular culture, "Untimely Bollywood" stands out not only for its originality but also for its audacity. Its deft coordination of what at first would seem wildly heterogeneous topics is simply dazzling. There are wonderful discussions throughout that involve themselves in surprising but consistently illuminating topics, including art deco theatres, DJ culture, and Dolby sound in India. The movement through these topics is as often fun as it is enlightening."--Corey K. Creekmur, co-editor of "Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia"

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: India and the New Nonlinear Media Assemblage 1
Part 1. Cinema Becoming New Media
1. “First Day, First Show”: Bollywood Cinemagoing and the New Sensorium 21
2. Contagious Multiplicities and the Nonlinear Life of the New Media 55
Part 2. Toward an Ontology of Media Durations
3. “The Best Quality Cinema Viewing . . . Everywhere. Everytime.”: On the Multipliex Mutagen in India 131
4. "With You Every Moment in Time": On the Emergent Ittafaq (Chance) Assemblage 79
Conclusion: Clinamedia 211
Notes 221
Bibliography 275
Index 289