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Bollywood travels : culture, diaspora and border crossings in popular Hindi cinema
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Bollywood travels : culture, diaspora and border crossings in popular Hindi cinema / Rajinder Dudrah.
ISBN
0203125649
0415447402
1136451315
6613661279
9780203125649
9780415447409
9781136451317
9786613661272
Published
New York : Routledge, 2012.
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1 online resource
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Summary
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.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 55
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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
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