Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India: Cinematic Representations and Nationalist Agendas in Hindi Cinema - Softcover

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Swapna Gopinath is an associate professor of film and cultural studies at Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune, India. She is a Fulbright fellow and has completed postdoctoral research on urban spatiality and ideological dimensions in India. She writes on film and culture, and contextualizes contemporary India in the Global South. She also teaches film and culture at FLAME University, Pune, as a visiting faculty member.

Rutuja Deshmukh is a visiting faculty member of the Cinema Department at Savitribai Phule Pune University, India. She also teaches film and culture at FLAME University, Pune as a visiting faculty member. She is currently a research fellow at Symbiosis International University, Pune. Her research areas include popular cinema, popular cultures, and questions of gender and representation at the intersection of neoliberalism. Her work has previously appeared in Economic and Political Weekly, Jump Cut, The Feminist Review, The Wire, FemAsia, Countercurrents, and HimalSouthasian.