wyszukanych pozycji: 5
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Dream Machine: Realism and Fantasy in Hindi Cinema
ISBN: 9781439910634 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Popular Hindi films offer varied cinematic representations ranging from realistic portraits of patriotic heroes to complex fantasies that go beyond escapism. In "Dream Machine, " Samir Dayal provides a history of Hindi cinema starting with films made after India s independence in 1947. He constructs a decade-by-decade consideration of Hindi cinema s role as a site for the construction of Indianness. Dayal suggests that Hindi cinema functions as both mirror and lamp, reflecting and illuminating new and possible representations of national and personal identity, beginning with early... Popular Hindi films offer varied cinematic representations ranging from realistic portraits of patriotic heroes to complex fantasies that go beyond... |
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383,76 |
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Dream Machine: Realism and Fantasy in Hindi Cinema
ISBN: 9781439910641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Popular Hindi films offer varied cinematic representations ranging from realistic portraits of patriotic heroes to complex fantasies that go beyond escapism. In "Dream Machine, " Samir Dayal provides a history of Hindi cinema starting with films made after India s independence in 1947. He constructs a decade-by-decade consideration of Hindi cinema s role as a site for the construction of Indianness. Dayal suggests that Hindi cinema functions as both mirror and lamp, reflecting and illuminating new and possible representations of national and personal identity, beginning with early... Popular Hindi films offer varied cinematic representations ranging from realistic portraits of patriotic heroes to complex fantasies that go beyond... |
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131,11 |
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Resisting Modernity: Counternarratives of Nation and Masculinity in pre-Independence India
ISBN: 9781847182258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "Samir Dayal’s book Resisting Modernity is provocative. Provocative because it undoes the allures of propulsion toward modernity at the same time that it refrains from a retreat into an idyllic and elusive pre-colonial past. Drawing on a wide body of postcolonial studies scholarship emanating from South Asia and on psychoanalytic theory, Dayal complicates our understanding of three prominent Indian figures—Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Rabindranath Tagore, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi—active in the decades before independence from British colonial rule. He sees them as resisting the...
"Samir Dayal’s book Resisting Modernity is provocative. Provocative because it undoes the allures of propulsion toward modernity at the same time th...
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153,35 |
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Global Babel: Questions of Discourse and Communication in a time of Globalization
ISBN: 9781847183811 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Globalization as we know it today would be unimaginable without the revolution in information and communication technologies of the last thirty years. Yet have we achieved “one world” as the promotional hype for cellular and digital networks would have it? This collection of essays, Global Babel: Questions of Discourse and Communication in a Time of Globalization, explores the current state of communication and discourse in a globalized environment. The essays are united by an awareness that, whether understood technologically, economically, epistemologically, or culturally,...
Globalization as we know it today would be unimaginable without the revolution in information and communication technologies of the last thirty years....
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204,49 |
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New Cosmopolitanisms, Race, and Ethnicity: Cultural Perspectives
ISBN: 9783110626193 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This anthology sheds new light on cosmopolitanism and culture in the contemporary world. Drawing on postcolonial, ethnic, and critical race studies as well as recent literary and critical theory, it demonstrates that new cosmopolitan thinking can embrace an awareness of ethnic and local differences. It disputes the utopianism of colorblind universalism and argues for the persistence of “race” and racialized thinking in lived experience. The essays collected in this volume valorize minoritarian perspectives and urge readers to rethink cosmopolitanism from the perspective of the...
This anthology sheds new light on cosmopolitanism and culture in the contemporary world. Drawing on postcolonial, ethnic, and critical race studies as...
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692,43 |