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Hindi Cinema - Repeating the Subject (Paperback)
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Hindi Cinema - Repeating the Subject (Paperback)
Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
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Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes,
narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi
cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic
and formal code that is problematic when representing the national
and cinematic subject. It reflects on the cinema as motivated by an
ongoing crisis of self-formation in modern India. The book looks at
how cinema presents liminal and counter-modern identities emerging
within repeated modern attempts to re-enact traumatic national
events so as to redeem the past and restore a normative structure
to happenings. Establishing structure and event as paradigmatic
poles of a historical and anthropological spectrum for the
individual in society, the book goes on to discuss cinematic
portrayals of violence, gender embodiment, religion, economic
transformations and new globalised Indianness as events and sites
of liminality disrupting structural aspirations. After revealing
the impossibility of accurate representation of incommensurable and
liminal subjects within the historiography of the nation-state, the
book highlights how Hindi cinema as an ongoing engagement with the
nation-state as a site of eventfulness draws attention to the
problematic nature of the thematic of nation. It is a useful study
for academics of Film Studies and South Asian Culture.
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