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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155121803321

Autore

Banerjee Sikata

Titolo

Gender, nation and popular film in India : globalizing muscular nationalism / / Sikata Banerjee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-62347-1

1-317-22612-7

1-317-22611-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (146 pages)

Collana

Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; ; 117

Disciplina

791.43/6581

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Political aspects - India

Motion pictures - Social aspects - India

Nationalism in motion pictures

Masculinity in motion pictures

Popular culture - Political aspects - India

Nationalism - India

Hindutva

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Gender, nation, and popular film in a globalizing India -- 2. Changing norms and contexts of masculinity in Indian popular film -- 3. Nation, manhood, and the British gaze : the presentist use of history in film -- 4. The Muslim body in Indian muscular nationalism -- 5. Imagining the diaspora : social anxieties and the transnational middle class in India -- 6. Muscular nationalism and film : some final thoughts.