Arjun Appadurai: “Indian Popular Cinema in the Making of a Decolonized Modernity”

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22 janvier 2016

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Ethnologist and globalization researcher Arjun Appadurai states that Indian cinema, particularly popular “Bollywood” cinema, is seen by many as an inferior imitation of Hollywood; as an apolitical vehicle of mass entertainment. In contrast, however, he reasons that this cinema should be seen as an emancipatory aesthetic form. Bollywood cinema, according to Appadurai, is one of the main sources of independent, modern Indian imagery. The ideas of family, city or nation are far more strongly in...

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