Sikata Banerjee

Gender, Nation and Popular Film in India

Globalizing Muscular Nationalism

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Produktbeschreibung

By drawing on popular films, this book unpacks a particular gendered vision of nation in the modern Indian context. This "muscular nationalism" is an intersection of a specific vision of masculinity with the political doctrine of nationalism: the idea of nation is animated by an idea of manhood associated with martial prowess, muscular strength and toughness, but coupled with the image and construct of virtuous woman - a gendered binary, martial man/chaste woman.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 333g
• ISBN-13: 9781138653993
• ISBN-10: 1138653993
• Artikelnr.: 44148241

Autorenporträt

Sikata Banerjee is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: 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 Legacy of 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. Conclusion: Muscular Nationalism and Film: Some Final Thoughts