Focusing on the video industry of Malegaon, India, known for its DIY spoofs of famous Holly- and Bollywood films, this talk will explore plastic world-making practices that open up new avenues of participation. At stake is a bottom-up conceptualization of the global.

Bhaskar Sarkar, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara, is the author of Mourning the Nation: India Cinema in the Wake of Partition (Duke UP, 2009). He is also the coeditor of Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering (Routledge, 2009), and two journal special issues on The Subaltern and the Popular (2005) and Indian Documentary Studies (2012). His current research interests include globalization and media, risk and media, and Asian film and video cultures.