| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
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Acknowledgments; Introduction. Mirror and Lamp; I. Postcolonial Hindi Cinema: Bad Subjects and Good Citizens; 1. The Wish to Belong, the Desire to Desire: The Emergent Citizen and the Hindi "Social" in Raj Kapoor's Awaara; 2. A Bad Son and a Good Enough Mother? The Paradoxical Maternal Romance in Mehboob Khan's Mother India; 3. Sexploitation or Consciousness Raising? The Angry Man, the Avenging Woman, and the Law; II. Reimagining the Secular State; 4. Terrorism or Seduction; 5. Patriot Games, Unpatriotic Fantasies |
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III. Diasporic Cinema and Fantasy Space: Nonresident Indian Aliens and Alienated Signifiers of Indianness; 6. The Powers of the False: Fantasy Spaces for Same-Sex Love?; 7. The New Cosmopolitanism and Diasporic Dilemmas: Rehabilitating the "NRI"; 8. Poverty Porn and Mediated Fantasy in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire; Conclusion. Transnational Translations: Mobile Indianness; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Popular Hindi films offer varied cinematic representations ranging from realistic portraits of patriotic heroes to complex fantasies that go beyond escapism. In Dream Machine, Samir Dayal provides a history of Hindi cinema starting with films made after India's independence in 1947. He constructs a decade-by-decade consideration of Hindi cinema's role as a site for the construction of "Indianness." Dayal suggests that Hindi cinema functions as both mirror and lamp, reflecting and illuminating new and possible representations of national and personal identity, beginning with early postcolonial films including Awaara and Mother India, a classic of the Golden Age. More recent films address critical social issues, such as My Name is Khan and Fire, which concern terrorism and sexuality, respectively. Dayal also chronicles changes in the industry and in audience reception, and the influence of globalization, considering such films as Slumdog Millionaire. Dream Machine analyzes the social and aesthetic realism of these films concerning poverty and work, the emergence of the middle class, crime, violence, and the law while arguing for their sustained and critical attention to forms of fantasy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 9, 2018) |
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Motion pictures -- India -- History
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Motion pictures, Hindi -- History
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Realism in motion pictures.
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Fantasy in motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- General.
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Fantasy in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures.
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Motion pictures, Hindi.
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Realism in motion pictures.
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India.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781439910658 |
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1439910650 |
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