Dreaming the Nation: Domestic dramas in Hindi films post-1990

Malhotra, Sheena; Alagh, Tavishi

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“…As Malhotra and Alagh emphasised Going to the theatre to see the latest Hindi fi lm at the week end has translated to a community space for gathering, reconnecting with other Indians and reasserting Indian identity, even as the diasporic Indian community increasingly sees itself refl ected positively in the stories being told by Hindi fi lms. (Malhotra & Alagh, 2004: 25) According to Kaur (2002), these movies helped sustain the euphoria through themes designed for the diasporic community, specifi cally family values, Malhotra and Alagh (2004), however, opined that the negative characters Downloaded by [Northeastern University] at 20:13 17 November 2014 portrayed in these movies are too Westernised and have forgotten their Indian heritage. In the Bollywood movies, the Indian diaspora are portrayed as strangers who never feel at home in a new country.…”

Section: Role Of Bollywood Movies In Indian Diasporic Identitymentioning

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Nostalgia, Identity and Tourism:Bollywoodin the Indian Diaspora

Bandyopadhyay

2008

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

101

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In today's global world of movement our personal identities are changing. So, 'where is my "home"?' and 'what is my "identity"?' have become essential questions in one's life. In recent times, more and more diasporic communities visit their homelands, perhaps to reroot their identities. This study explored the infl uence of Bollywood movies in the Indian diaspora's identity construction and notions of home and tourism behaviour to India. Findings revealed that the Indian diaspora's imagination of India is strongly informed by Bollywood movies. Yet, different generations of the Indian diaspora have different reasons for travelling to India. The fi rst generation's nostalgia arises from watching Bollywood movies, and as a result, creates a motivation to travel to India. The second generation's main motivation to travel to India is to experience the new 'modern' country, portrayed in the affl uent surroundings of contemporary Bollywood movies. And, for those fi rst generations, who have never seen India before, Bollywood movies enable them to romanticise their homeland and create an urge to visit India. Thus, Bollywood movies have immense importance in the Indian diaspora's identity construction, promote diaspora tourism and constitute a huge opportunity for economic development.A direct result of this race for speed that dominates life across the globe is the emergence of the migrant -the involuntary passenger-in-transit between cultures, for whom homelessness is the only home. (Chow, 1993: 197) By ethnoscape, I mean the landscape of persons who constitute the shifting world in which we live: tourists, immigrants, refuges, exiles, guest workers, and other moving groups and individuals constitute an essential feature of the world and appear to affect the politics of (and between) nations to a hitherto unprecedented degree. (Appadurai, 1996: 33)

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Nostalgia, Identity and Tourism:Bollywoodin the Indian Diaspora

Bandyopadhyay

2008

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

101

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“…75 The neo-liberal globalist paradigm is reflected and reinforced internally through local media, Hindi cinema, and political party campaigns (for example, Bharatiya Janata Party's 'India Shining'), as well as externally through international marketing campaigns like those of the India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF). 76 These campaigns reflect that fact that the 'gross domestic product' (GDP) has come to define the wellbeing of the Indian economy, which, in the process, has contributed to the privileging of the globally-oriented producer over other economic actors.…”

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India and international norms of climate governance: a constructivist analysis of normative congruence building

Stevenson¹

2011

Rev. Int. Stud.

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This article explores the process by which norms of international climate governance have diffused and evolved over time. The author develops a constructivist explanation for observed normative shifts in international climate governance. This explanation highlights the importance of building and maintaining congruence between domestic conditions and international norms. Due to the inherently fluid nature of both domestic conditions and international norms, it is argued that normative congruence building should be understood as an integral and iterative aspect of the norm diffusion process. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of the norm diffusion process in the context of India: a state commonly identified as an important player in international climate change politics, but one that has received surprisingly little scholarly attention in this area.

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“…Popular genres do not only exist in Hollywood films, and other countries' cinemas have also been discussed as important social and cultural phenomenon(See, McHugh & Abelmann, 2005;Malhotra & Alagh, 2004).4 Gitlin's analysis could also be applied to cinema.…”

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Komedi ve Kadın: Hokkabaz Filminde Cinsiyet Problemi

Akdoğan

2019

Sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi

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This study argues that representations of the female protagonist in the Turkish film Hokkabaz (The Magician, Cem Yılmaz & Ali Taner Baltacı, 2006) replicate gendered masculine hegemony. Using the concept of hegemonic masculinity and genre theory, we suggest that Hokkabaz contributes to the inequality of gender through its treatment of the father-son relationship. We first examine the formation of gender roles by means of the conventions of comedy and then, in terms of hegemonic masculinity, analyse the impact of the father on the son in a patriarchal society. The main elements of the essay, which employs the technique of textual analysis, are the collective discourses about women as represented in mainstream comedies and the hegemonic relationships between men found in the literature of hegemonic masculinity.

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Dreaming the Nation: Domestic dramas in Hindi films post-1990

Cited by 25 publications

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Nostalgia, Identity and Tourism:Bollywoodin the Indian Diaspora

Nostalgia, Identity and Tourism:Bollywoodin the Indian Diaspora

India and international norms of climate governance: a constructivist analysis of normative congruence building

Komedi ve Kadın: Hokkabaz Filminde Cinsiyet Problemi

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