Studies in South Asian Film & Media · 2009 · 14 citations · 4 references
HumanitiesCultural StudiesFilm StudiesFilm CriticismFilm TheoryHindu StudiesEthnicity In FilmNational CinemaNational Cinema CriticismPostcolonial Film CriticismPostcolonial Film TheoryTransnational CinemaCinematic NationalismCultural Nationalism In CinemaIndian CinemaNarrative StrategiesNational Cinema ContextNational Identity In CinemaNationalist ElitesTransnational Cultural Nationalism
This discussion draws upon the narrative strategies of the Bombay cinema blockbuster Fanaa and examines larger questions of culture, nation and citizenship in contemporary India including: What kinds of gender, class and nationalist politics does it reinforce? What kinds of imagined communities does it give rise to? How does it regulate the borders of those communities? On what terms are Muslims offered citizenship in contemporary India? How might Bombay Cinema films function as a transnational cultural product?
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