Bollywood travels : culture, diaspora and border crossings in popular Hindi cinema / / Rajinder Dudrah

• Autore: Dudrah Rajinder Kumar
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (143 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.430954/792
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - India - Bombay; Motion pictures, Indic; Culture in motion pictures; Motion pictures and globalization - India
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Studies in Bollywood travels -- Borders and border crossings in Main Hoon Na and Veer Zaara -- Dance baby dance: diaspora, place and aesthetics in Jhoom Barabar Jhoom -- The secret politics are out? the pleasures of gender and sexuality in Dostana -- Haptic urban ethnoscapes and Bollywood popular cultures in the diaspora -- Performing Bollywood: Hindi cinema entertainment shows -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, popular cultures, and media and entertainment industries from the popular Hindi cinema of India. It analyses and discusses a range of key contemporary films in detail, such as Veer Zaara, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, and Dostana.The book uses the notion of travel analytically in and through the cinema to comment on films that have dealt with Indo-Pak border crossings, representations of diaspora, and gender and sexuality in new ways. It engages with
• Titolo autorizzato: Bollywood travels
• ISBN: 1-136-45130-7; 1-280-68433-X; 9786613661272; 1-136-45131-5; 0-203-12564-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790396003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; ; 55.