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The Politics of Hindi Cinema in the New Millennium: Bollywood and the Anglophone
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The Politics of Hindi Cinema in the New Millennium: Bollywood and the Anglophone Indian Nation Hardcover - 2014

by M. K. Raghavendra


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This book charts out a new direction in scholarship on Indian cinema. It argues that with mainstream Hindi cinema becoming 'Bollywood' and the diaspora becoming a key commercial factor, the constituency addressed by the mainstream Hindi film has significantly changed. Consequently, the audience for Hindi cinema has become more asymmetric. With the emergence of a new knowledge economy in the 1990s and Indian professionals traveling and settling abroad, a new 'Anglophone Indian Nation', the one with the greatest spending power, was born. Where mainstream Hindi cinema had been regarded as a pariah by the Indian state, the commercial success of Bollywood globally gave it immense respectability in the government. This work expresses the hope that understanding such an asymmetry will help us appreciate some of the alignments in India and the political forces which often masquerade as 'opinion'. Apart from bringing out the transformation of the mainstream Hindi film after it became 'Bollywood', the book provides fresh insights into political developments in India in the past decade outside cinema.

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  • Title The Politics of Hindi Cinema in the New Millennium: Bollywood and the Anglophone Indian Nation
  • Author M. K. Raghavendra
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition International Ed
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New Delhi
  • Date 2014
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780199450565 / 0199450560
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.7 x 1 in (21.84 x 14.48 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Film
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures, Hindi, Motion pictures and language
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014357913
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.43

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M K Raghavendra, Film Critic, Researcher, and Scholar M K Raghavendra is a film critic, researcher, and scholar.
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