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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459399503321

Titolo

Bollywood and globalization : Indian popular cinema, nation, and diaspora / / edited by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-283-37794-2

9786613377944

1-84331-889-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 197 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem South Asian Studies

Disciplina

808.823

Soggetti

Motion picture industry - India - Mumbai

Motion pictures - India - History and criticism

Globalization - Social aspects - India

Motion pictures and globalization - India

Culture in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di contenuto

Bollywood, nation, globalization : an incomplete introduction / Rini Bhattacharya Mehta -- Sentimental symptoms : the films of Karan Johar and Bombay cinema / Sangita Gopal -- Is everybody saying 'Shava shava' to Bollywood Bhangra? / Anjali Gera Roy -- Bollywood babes : body and female desire in the Bombay films since the nineties and Darr, Mohra and Aitraaz : a tropic discourse / Purna Chowdhury -- Globalization and the cultural imaginary : constructions of subjectivity, freedom & enjoyment in popular Indian cinema / Gautam Basu Thakur -- Rang de basanti : the solvent brown and other imperial colors / Manisha Basu -- Between yaars : the queering of dosti in contemporary Bollywood films / Dinah Holtzman -- Imagined subjects : law, gender and citizenship in Indian cinema / Nandini Bhattacharya -- 'It's all about loving your parents' : liberalization, Hindutva and Bollywood's new fathers / Meheli Sen.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new



post-Global India.