The Western image of India has traditionally been based on the attraction of stereotypes like the exotic, the mystical or the spiritual; if this imaginative construct is evident in literature, with examples like Paul Scott’s The Jewel in The Crown and E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India. I suggest that this recreation could also be applicable to cinema through stereotypi- cal visions that originally appear in films about India. In this article I aim to explain the evolution of Indian cinema as a genre of its own, using postcolonial concepts like ‘mimicry’, ‘hybridity’ or ‘liminality’ discussed by H.K. Bhabha in The Location of Culture (1994), and through the threefold perspective developed by Priyamvada Gopal in The Indian English ...
Since the beginning of the 20th century, Indian cinema reflected the social and economic conditions ...
Le cinéma populaire indien est à la fois un lieu de création de mythes filmiques puissants et un uni...
Re-Orientalism, initially defined as the perpetration of Orientalism by ‘Orientals’ (Lau 2009), is a...
The Indian film industry is divided in different regional film industries, based on different lingui...
Restructuring the sense of nation in the culture of imagined communities through Bollywood Unarguabl...
Apart from a few disparaging remarks about offensive stereotypes by Anglo-Indian writers and politic...
A content analysis of randomly selected films (N = 24) about India produced from 1930–2000 in the US...
In this article, I attempt to decipher the intangible and pre-theoretical dimension of South Asian m...
Literary works and movie sometimes depict about stereotypes of certain race and ethnic. Author and d...
That the adaptation of international ideas and foreign technology had an impact on local film cultur...
Le cinéma indien est structuré en plusieurs industries cinématographiques régionales autonomes, chac...
My thesis is dedicated to the study of popular, commercial cinema as a force within the discourse of...
Commercial Hindi cinema plays a central role in the negotiation of national identity. For decades, t...
Studi ini berfokus pada untuk melihat transisi poster film Bollywood dari 1990- an, 2000-an, hingga...
The article engages with the question of an exclusivity, an ‘otherness’ of the Bengali culture, in t...
Since the beginning of the 20th century, Indian cinema reflected the social and economic conditions ...
Le cinéma populaire indien est à la fois un lieu de création de mythes filmiques puissants et un uni...
Re-Orientalism, initially defined as the perpetration of Orientalism by ‘Orientals’ (Lau 2009), is a...
The Indian film industry is divided in different regional film industries, based on different lingui...
Restructuring the sense of nation in the culture of imagined communities through Bollywood Unarguabl...
Apart from a few disparaging remarks about offensive stereotypes by Anglo-Indian writers and politic...
A content analysis of randomly selected films (N = 24) about India produced from 1930–2000 in the US...
In this article, I attempt to decipher the intangible and pre-theoretical dimension of South Asian m...
Literary works and movie sometimes depict about stereotypes of certain race and ethnic. Author and d...
That the adaptation of international ideas and foreign technology had an impact on local film cultur...
Le cinéma indien est structuré en plusieurs industries cinématographiques régionales autonomes, chac...
My thesis is dedicated to the study of popular, commercial cinema as a force within the discourse of...
Commercial Hindi cinema plays a central role in the negotiation of national identity. For decades, t...
Studi ini berfokus pada untuk melihat transisi poster film Bollywood dari 1990- an, 2000-an, hingga...
The article engages with the question of an exclusivity, an ‘otherness’ of the Bengali culture, in t...
Since the beginning of the 20th century, Indian cinema reflected the social and economic conditions ...
Le cinéma populaire indien est à la fois un lieu de création de mythes filmiques puissants et un uni...
Re-Orientalism, initially defined as the perpetration of Orientalism by ‘Orientals’ (Lau 2009), is a...