Gender, nation and popular film in India :

Banerjee, Sikata,

Gender, nation and popular film in India : globalizing muscular nationalism / Sikata Banerjee. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business, 2017. - 145 pages ; 23 cm. - Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 117 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. 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 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. Muscular nationalism and film : some final thoughts.

9781138653993 (hardback)


Motion pictures
Motion pictures
Nationalism in motion pictures.
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Popular culture
Nationalism
Hindutva.--Political aspects--India.--Social aspects--India.--Political aspects--India.--India.

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