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Gender, Nation and Popular Film in India Globalizing Muscular Nationalism
By Sikata Banerjee
Copyright 2017
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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Interpretations of manhood have unfolded in India within a middle class cultural milieu shaped by an assertive self-confidence fuelled by liberalisation, a process by which India has been integrated into the global political economy and the prominence of Hindutva or Hindu nationalist politics.
This book unpacks a particular gendered vision of nation in the modern Indian context by drawing on... Read more
1. Introduction: Gender, Nation, and Popular Film in a Globalizing India
2. Changing Norms and Contexts of Masculinity in Indian Popular Film
3. Nation, Manhood, and the Legacy of the British Gaze: The Presentist Use of History in Film
4. The Muslim Body in Indian Muscular Nationalism
5. Imagining the Diaspora: Social Anxieties, and the Transnational Middle Class in India
6. Conclusion: Muscular Nationalism and Film: Some Final Thoughts
Biography
Sikata Banerjee is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada.
