This exciting new collection brings together original research from across the arts and humanities disciplines that examine the legacies of the 1970s in India's cinemas. It was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.

1. The 1970s and its Legacies in India's Cinemas Priya Joshi and Rajinder Dudrah 2. Cinema as Family Romance Priya Joshi 3. Relationships Which Have No Name: Family and Sexuality in 1970s Popular Film Ulka Anjaria 4. The Affable Young Man: Civility, Desire and the Making of a Middle-Class Cinema in the 1970s Satish Poduval 5. The Construction of 1970s Femininity, or Why Zeenat Aman Sings the Same Song Twice Ajay Gehlawat 6. Ritual Reverb: Two "Blockbuster" Hindi Films Philip Lutgendorf 7. The 1970s Tamil Cinema and the Post-Classical Turn Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai 8. Aesthetic Dislocations: A Re-Take on Malayalam Cinema of the 1970s Ratheesh Radhakrishnan 9. The Retro Noughties: 1970s Hindi Films in 2000s Bollywood Cinema Rajinder Dudrah 10. The Afterlives of 1970s Hindi Cinema Sangita Gopal 11. From Ceiling Fans to A/C and Juice: Javed Akhtar in Conversation with Priya Joshi Priya Joshi

Priya Joshi is Associate Professor of English and Founding Director of the New India Forum at Temple University, USA. She is author of the forthcoming Nationalism and Public Fantasy in Bollywood Cinema, a sequel to her prize-winning book, In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture and the English Novel in India (2002), in which she explored public culture and emerging modernities in South Asia.

Rajinder Dudrah is Senior Lecturer in 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 Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema (2012), Bhangra: Birmingham and Beyond (2007), and Bollywood: Sociology Goes to the Movies (2006).