The politics of Hindi cinema in the new millennium : Bollywood and the Anglophone Indian nation
Raghavendra, M. KAuthor
Bringing out the transformation of the mainstream Hindi film after it became 'Bollywood', this book charts out a new direction in scholarship on Indian cinema. It is devoted to analyses of important Hindi films in the new millennium and focuses on overt and covert political discourse and the detection of tendencies identifiable with India's transformation in the global age. Popular culture is taken to be transparent, but the mainstream film has political implications which are far from obvious.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bringing out the transformation of the mainstream Hindi film after it became 'Bollywood', this book charts out a new direction in scholarship on Indian cinema. It is devoted to analyses of important Hindi films in the new millennium and focuses on overt and covert political discourse and the detection of tendencies identifiable with India's transformation in the global age. Popular culture is taken to be transparent, but the mainstream film has political implications which are far from obvious.
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Motion pictures
Motion picture industry
Motion pictures and language
Motion pictures, Hindi
Music, Dance, Drama & Film
Film