Debashree Mukherjee is an assistant professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University. She worked in Mumbai’s film and television industries from 2004–2007.

In viewing cinema “as an ecology of practices and practitioners” Debashree Mukherjee’s Bombay Hustle – Making Movies in a Colonial City provides a significant and timely contribution to our understanding of how these apparently disparate forces mesh together to form what she describes as a cine-ecology, distinct from the more imprecise ‘film industry’.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Mapping a Cine-EcologyPart I. Elasticity: Infrastructural Maneuvers1. Speculative Futures | Teji-Mandi2. Scientific Desires | Jadu Ghar3. Voice | AwaazPart II. Energy: Intimate Struggles4. Vitality | Josh5. Exhaustion | Thakaan6. Short Circuit | StruggleEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Debashree Mukherjee is an assistant professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University. She worked in Mumbai’s film and television industries from 2004–2007.

In viewing cinema “as an ecology of practices and practitioners” Debashree Mukherjee’s Bombay Hustle – Making Movies in a Colonial City provides a significant and timely contribution to our understanding of how these apparently disparate forces mesh together to form what she describes as a cine-ecology, distinct from the more imprecise ‘film industry’.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Mapping a Cine-EcologyPart I. Elasticity: Infrastructural Maneuvers1. Speculative Futures | Teji-Mandi2. Scientific Desires | Jadu Ghar3. Voice | AwaazPart II. Energy: Intimate Struggles4. Vitality | Josh5. Exhaustion | Thakaan6. Short Circuit | StruggleEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex