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Contested representation : Dalits, popular Hindi cinema, and public sphere / Dhananjay Rai.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rai, Dhananjay, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--India--History--21st century.
- Motion pictures.
- Dalits in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures, Hindi--Themes, motives.
- Motion pictures, Hindi.
- Caste in motion pictures.
- Dalits.
- India.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (269 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2022.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- The crises in material spheres and the hegemonic singularity of the social sphere shape the Dalit Representation in Hindi Cinema.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Prelude
- Conundrums
- Methodological Concerns
- An Outline of Conceptual Categories
- Dalits
- Public Sphere
- Popular
- Popular Hindi Cinema
- Social Language
- Taxonomy
- Pertinence
- Notes
- Chapter 1: Constituting Social Language: Dalits in Material and Social Spheres
- Significance of Social Language
- Domination of Social Language and Restriction of Tools
- Evasion of Realisation of Dominance
- Identification of Domination/Dominance of Social Language
- Rejuvenation by Way of Social Language
- Marxism and Issue of Realisation of Domination, Challenge and Rejuvenation of Social Language
- Dalits and Material Spheres
- Dalits and Social Spheres
- Dalit Response to Material Spheres
- Dalit Response to Social Spheres
- Dalit: An Arrival of New Social
- Biography of the Concept
- Tools of Social Language in Dalit Movements
- Chapter 2: The Public Sphere and Social Language
- The Idea of Public
- Value of the Public Sphere
- Factors of the Emergence of the Public Sphere and Its Value for Social Language
- The Decline of the Public Sphere
- Rejuvenation of the Public Sphere
- Jürgen Habermas and Rejuvenation of the Public Sphere
- Critics and Rejuvenation
- Negation of the Nature of Social Language of the Public Sphere
- Origin and Expansion of Indian Public Sphere
- State's Response to the Indian Public Sphere
- Indian State and Popular Hindi Cinema
- In Pursuit of Creating Social Language
- Deterring Social Language
- Controlling Social Language
- Chapter 3: In Search of a Perspective: Cinema and Dalit Representation
- Social Language of Entertainment
- Cinematic Social Language: Dual Possibilities
- Cinema, Modernity and Tradition.
- The Vitality of Tradition Perspective
- Subsiding of a Particular Culture in Hindi Cinema
- Tradition versus Oppressive Modernity
- Minifying Tradition
- Criticism
- Cinema and Society: Exploring Relationship
- Four Versions of Cinematic-Societal Relation
- Cinema Swaying Society
- Cinema under Tutelage of Society
- Cinema and Society: Insulated Relationship
- Cinema and Society: Internal Conflict and Universalistic Concern
- Cinema and Ideology
- Factors of Cinematic Construction
- Cinema as Ideological State Apparatus
- Cinema and Content
- Sources of Cinematic Social Language
- Meaning of Cinematic Social Language's Content
- In Pursuit of Alternative Content
- Cinema and Entertainment/Aesthetics
- Entertainment and Aesthetic Perspective
- Cinema and History
- In Search of an Alternative Perspective
- Chapter 4: Contested Representation: Sujata, Sholay and Swades, A Microcosmic Reading of Dalit Representation
- Selecting Films
- Storyline of the Films
- Sujata: The Leading Protagonist as Dalit
- Sholay: Absence of Dalit
- Swades: We the People: Presence of Dalits
- Applying Six Perspectives on Three Films
- Microcosmic Perspective and Three Films
- Foregrounding of Problems
- Problems under Multi-Polarity of Dominant Material Spheres and Singularity of Dominant Social Sphere
- Solution as Reconciliation
- Creation of Three Priorities
- Abdication of Third Priority
- Occupation of First Priority
- Inclusion and Exclusion as Dynamic Process
- Relative Autonomy as a Fructuous Enterprise
- Chapter 5: Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Films
- PRIMARY (NON-FILMS) AND SECONDARY SOURCES
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-66699-146-5
- 1-66690-134-2
- OCLC:
- 1336458033
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