1. Introduction: A brief introduction to popular cinema in Bengal: genre, stardom, public cultures Part I: Styles, Stars and Popular Forms
2. Rethinking popular cinema in Bengal (1930s?1950s): of literariness, comic mode, mythological and other avatars
3. Kanan Devi: a Bengali star
4. Performing the region: Sadhona Bose and the modern Bengali film dance
5. A postcolonial iconi-city: Re-reading Uttam Kumar’s cinema as metropolar melodrama
6. Filmfare and the question of Bengali cinema (1955?65)
7. From Teen Kanya to Arshinagar: feminist politics, Bengali high culture and the stardom of Aparna Sen
8. The action heroes of Bengali cinema: industrial, technological and aesthetic determinants of popular film culture, 1980s?1990s Part II: Ray and Felu Mittir, the private detective
9. Feluda on Feluda: a letter to Topshe
10. Reviewing ‘Feluda on Feluda’: Maganlal Meghraj ‘Writes Back’ to Tapesh
11. Negotiating mobility and media: the contemporary digital afterlives of Feluda Part III: Photo Essays: Public Cultures
12. A booklets sequence
13. Inside a dark hall: space, place, and accounts of some single-theatres in Kolkata
14. Rituparno Ghosh, performing arts and a queer legacy: an abiding stardom
15. A Rendezvous with the Ghosh Brothers: A Sneak Peek into Bengal’s Homegrown Exploitation Cinema