Provincializing Bollywood: Bhojpuri Cinema in the Comparative Media Crucible

ISBN-13: 9780190130183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 256 str.

Akshaya Kumar

Recenzje

Akshaya Kumar's ultimate interest is the political formation of contemporary India. Kumar argues that transformations in capital in contemporary India have found their expression in intensified regional identities. When the subaltern speaks here, they are speaking Bhojpuri. To account for this political identity, Kumar has to rethink the operations of cinema and the broader media ecology in which it operates. The result is an ambitious, relentlessly inventive book, opening up new domains for film and media studies.

O autorze

Akshaya Kumar is assistant professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore.