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Bollywood and Globalization: Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora (Anthem South Asian Studies,Anthem Global Media and Communication Studies,New ... Cinema,Anthem Studies in Popular Culture) by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Commercial cinema has always been one of the biggest indigenous industries in India, and remains so in the post-globalization era, when Indian economy has entered a new phase of global participation, liberalization and expansion. Issues of community, gender, society, social and economic justice, bourgeois-liberal individualism, secular nationhood and ethnic identity are nowhere more explored in the Indian cultural mainstream than in commercial cinema. As Indian economy and policy have gone through a sea-change after the end of the Cold War and the commencement of the Global Capital, the largest cultural industry has followed suit. For example, the global Indian community (known in Indian official terms as the Non-Resident Indian or the NRI) has become an integral part of the cultural representation of India. The politics and ideology of Indian commercial cinema have become extremely complex, offering a fascinating case-study to scholars of Global Culture. Of particular interest is the re-positioning of individual identity vis-à-vis nation, religion, class, and gender. On one hand, the definition of'nationhood'and/or community has become much more fluid, keeping in tune with the swe

Author

Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande

Publisher

London ; New York: Anthem Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781843318330

Subjects

Performing Arts, Sports, Literary Fiction