1st Edition
The Subject of the Nation and his 'Others' in Hindi Cinema Gender, Religious, Caste, and Ethnic Identity as Difference
Introduction
Chapter 1: Film Form and Ideology
Chapter 2: The Trajectory of the Hero in Bollywood
Chapter 3: Representing Women
Chapter 4: The Portrayal of Muslims as Religious Minorities
Chapter 5: Caste Identity and Conflict
Chapter 6: Ethnicities and Hindi Cinema
Chapter 7: Representing the Social ‘Other’
Chapter 8: Pakistan as the National ‘Other’
Afterword: Asymmetric Nationhood
Biography
MK Raghavendra is an independent scholar of culture, literature and politics, specializing in film, particularly its political aspects. He won the National Award for Best Film Critic in 1997 and received a Homi Bhabha Fellowship to research popular film narrative. Since then he has authored six volumes of academic film scholarship from international publishers including Routledge. Apart from these, he has authored three academic works on literature, culture and politics. He has published in national and international anthologies and journals on the above subjects, and his writing has been translated into French, Polish and Russian and published.
