Bollywood and Globalization - The Global Power of Popular Hindi Cinema (Hardcover)

The field of Bollywood studies has remained predominantly critical, theoretical and historical in focus. This book brings together qualitative and quantitative approaches to tackle empirical questions focusing on the relationship between soft power, hybridity, cinematic texts, and audiences. Adopting a critical-transcultural framework that examines the complex power relations that are manifested through globalized production and consumption practices, the book approaches the study of popular Hindi cinema from three broad perspectives: transcultural production contexts, content trends, and audiences. It firstly outlines the theoretical issues relevant to the spread of popular Indian cinema and emergence of India's growing soft power. The book goes on to report on a series of quantitative studies that examine the patterns of geographical, cultural, political, infrastructural, and artistic power dynamics at work within the highest-grossing popular Hindi films over a 61-year period since independence. Finally, an additional set of studies are presented that quantitatively examine Indian and North American audience consumption practices. The book illuminates issues related to the actualization and maintenance of cinematic soft power dynamics, highlighting Bollywood's increasing integration into and subsumption by globalized practices that are fundamentally altering India's cinematic landscape and, thus, its unique soft power potential. It is of interest to academics working in Film Studies, Globalisation Studies, and International Relations.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	2013
Editors:	David Schaefer • Kavita Karan
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	188
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-62523-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-62523-8
Barcode:	9780415625234

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