Cinema is not only a major industry in India, it is a powerful cultural force. But until now, no one has undertaken a major examination of the ways in which films made in Bombay mediate the urban experience in India. In Bombay Cinema , Ranjani Mazumdar takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding Bombay cinema as the unofficial archive of the city in India. In this analysis of the cinematic city, Mazumdar reveals a complex postnationalist world, convulsed by the social crisis of the 1970s and transformed by the experience of globalization in the 1990s. 

电影不仅是印度的一个主要产业，也是一种强大的文化力量。但到目前为止，还没有人对孟买电影如何调解印度的城市体验进行过一次大检查。在孟买电影，兰贾尼马祖姆达尔采取多学科的方法来理解孟买电影作为印度城市的非官方档案。在对这座电影城市的分析中，马祖姆达尔揭示了一个复杂的后民族主义世界，它被1970年代的社会危机所震撼，并被1990年代的全球化经历所改变。