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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 791.430954 EAN: 9780813531908 ISBN: 081353190X Label: Rutgers University Press Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2003-05 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Studio: Rutgers University Press
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Editorial Reviews: India produces more films than any other country in the world and these works are consumed by non-Western cultures in Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and by the Indian communities across the world. This text focuses on how such a dominant media configures the "nation" in post-Independence Hindi cinema. The author scrutinizes approxiamtely 30 films that have appeared since 1950 and demonstrates how concepts of the nation centre this cinema's moral universe. As a form of storytelling, Indian cinema provides an account of social history and cultural politics, with the family deployed as a symbol of the nation. Virdi demonstrates how Hindi films' portrayal of the nation as a mythical community collapses under the weight of its own contradictions - irreconcilable differences that encompass gender, sexuality, family, class and religious communities.