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Dream machine : realism and fantasy in Hindi cinema /
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 construc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
Temple University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.