Bollywood Does Battle: The War Movie and the Indian Popular Imagination - Softcover

Chopra, Samir

 
9789353578312: Bollywood Does Battle: The War Movie and the Indian Popular Imagination
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9353578310 ISBN 13: 9789353578312
Verlag: HarperCollins, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

War is part of the story of the Indian nation; its presence in India's past continues to shape the Indian present and future. The 1962 China war, the 1971 Bangladesh war and the 1999 Kargil conflict all play outsized roles in the Indian popular imagination. The Indian film industry's war movies play an acute role in representing this aspect of Indian history; Samir Chopra's fascinating book takes a closer look at these movies' emotionally charged depictions of Indian military history. It examines classics of the war movie genre -- from Haqeeqat, Border and Hindustan Ki Kasam to Vijeta, LOC Kargil, Lakshya and The Ghazi Attack to see what they reveal and illuminate about the relationship of the Indian nation to war. Chopra thus enquires into how these movies establish popular Indian understandings of patriotism, militarism and nationalism and reinforce supposed 'Indian' values through their cinematic representations of war.

This is a must-read for anyone interested in the relationship of Indian films to Indian culture and history.

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Samir Chopra is professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He blogs at The Cordon on ESPNcricinfo and at www.samirchopra.com. He can be found on Twitter as @EyeOnThePitch. He is the co-author or author of: The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965 (Manohar Publishers, 2005); Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software (Routledge, 2007); A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents (University of Michigan Press, 2011); Brave New Pitch: The Evolution of Modern Cricket (HarperCollins India, 2012); and Eagles Over Bangladesh: The Indian
Air Force in the 1971 Liberation War (HarperCollins India, 2013)."

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Verlag
HarperCollins
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9353578310
ISBN 13 
9789353578312
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
260
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