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Provincializing Bollywood : Bhojpuri cinema in the comparative media crucible / Akshaya Kumar. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kumar, Akshaya, author.
- Series:
- Media dynamics in South Asia.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Media dynamics in South Asia
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture industry--India.
- Motion picture industry.
- Motion pictures, Bhojpuri.
- Bhojpuri (Indic people)--Social conditions.
- Bhojpuri (Indic people).
- India, North--Social conditions.
- India, North.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages) : maps (black and white).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 'Provincializing Bollywood' argues that Bhojpuri cinema exemplifies the overflow of a provincial derivative form that defies its place in the given scheme of things. Situating it at the intersection of vernacular media production and the infrastructural-political reordering of provincial north India, the book shows that Bhojpuri media's characteristic 'disobedience' is marked by a libidinal excess - simultaneously scandalising and moralising - to address the inexact calculi of Bhojpuri speaking region's'underdevelopment'.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 17, 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-099259-X
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