Includes bibliographical references and index

CONTENTS: Introduction: the horizon of media studies, Ravi Sundaram -- Mapping the terrain -- The 'bollywoodization' of the Indian cinema: cultural nationalism in a global arena -- Sensuous encounters: law, affect, and the media event -- The inner and outer worlds of emergent television cultures -- Circulation -- Mission, money, and machinery: Indian newspapers in the twentieth century -- Revisiting the pirate kingdom -- figures of transit -- Publics -- Creating cinema's reading publics: the emergence of film journalism in Bombay -- Notes on contemporary film experience: 'bollywood', genre diversity, and video circuits -- Whistling fans: reflections on the sociology, politics, and performativity of an excessively active audience -- Unimaginable communities: television, globalization, and national identities in postcolonial India -- The imagined reign of the iron lecturer: village broadcast in colonial India -- The 'terrorist' and the screen: afterimages of the batla house 'encounter' -- Production -- The evolution of an early media enterprise -- Democratizing Indian popular music: from cassette culture to the digital era -- Film stardom after liveness -- index.

Media studies in India is a young and emergent field. Through interdisciplinary studies in the fields of film, television, music, print, and radio, No Limits addresses the issue of the contemporary in Indian media environment since its globalization in the 1980s.