Hindi cinema: repeating the subject

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Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the cinema as motivated by an ongoing crisis of self-formation in modern India.The book looks at how cinema presents liminal and counter-modern identities emerging within repeated modern attempts to re-e…

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Full title :Hindi cinema : repeating the subject / Nandini Bhattacharya.

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Publication Date:c2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:c2013.

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Description based upon print version of record.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (233 p.).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0203084179, 9780203084175, 1136189874, 9781136189876
oclc:on1162532912
LC Classification:PN1993.5.I8
Dewey Decimal:791.430899143

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Structure, event, and liminal practices in recent Hindi films; 2 Imagining the past in the present: violence, gender, and citizenship in Hindi films; 3 The man formerly known as the actor: when Shah Rukh Khan reappeared as himself; 4 Romancing religion: Bollywood's painless globalization; 5 Love triangles at home and abroad: male embodiment as queer enactment; Notes; Bibliography; Index