Subject of the Nation and His ''Others'' in Hindi Cinema - Gender, Religious, Caste, and Ethnic Identity As Difference

This book analyses the representations of the subjects of Hindi cinema as a way of gaining insights into the hegemony of the upper-caste Hindu male in narratives of nationhood.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Film Form and Ideology
Chapter 2: The Trajectory of the Hero in Bollywood
Chapter 3: Representing Women
Chapter 4: The Portrayal of Muslims as Religious Minorities
Chapter 5: Caste Identity and Conflict
Chapter 6: Ethnicities and Hindi Cinema
Chapter 7: Representing the Social 'Other'
Chapter 8: Pakistan as the National 'Other'
Afterword: Asymmetric Nationhood

About the author

MK Raghavendra is an independent scholar on culture, literature and politics, specializing in film, particularly its political side. He won the National Award for Best Film Critic in 1997, and received a Homi Bhabha Fellowship to research popular film narrative. Since then he has authored six volumes of academic film scholarship from international publishers including Routledge. Apart from these he has authored three academic works on literature, culture and politics. He has published in national and international anthologies and journals on the above subjects and his writing has been translated into French, Polish and Russian and published.

Product details

• Authors: Mk Raghavendra
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 17.09.2025
• EAN: 9781041034520
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4103452-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Ethnic Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Cultural Studies, India, Films, cinema, General & world history, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Asian History, Gender studies: women, General and world history, Gender studies: women and girls, History and Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity