Consuming Cultural Hegemony

Bollywood in Bangladesh

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Harisur Rahman

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This book examines the circulation and viewership of Bollywood films and filmi modernity in Bangladesh. The writer poses a number of fundamental questions: what it means to be a Bangladeshi in South Asia, what it means to be a Bangladeshi fan of Hindi film, and how popular film reflects power relations in South Asia. The writer argues that partition has resulted in India holding hegemonic power over all of South Asia’s nation-states at the political, economic, and military levels–a situation that has made possible its cultural hegemony. The book draws on relevant literature from anthropology, sociology, film, media, communication, and cultural studies to explore the concepts of hegemony, circulation, viewership, cultural taste, and South Asian cultural history and politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-12-06
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor243
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030317065

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Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik
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1. Introduction.- 2. From Partition to Hegemony: Bangladesh and Bangladeshi Films in the South Asian Context.- 3. Ethnographic Fieldwork: The Self as an Informant and an Observer.- 4. The Political Economy, Materiality and the Visceral Experience of Cable Television.- 5. The Cultural Economy of the CD/DVD Store and the Creation of Space.- 6. Culture of Copying and Copying of Culture: Media "Piracy" in Bangladesh.- 7. Belonging to Class: Hindi Film and the Formation of Middle Class Audience in Bangladesh.- 8. Negotiating Mediated Modernity and Culture: When “Soft Power” Becomes Hard.- 9. Bollywoodization or Ghettoization?: The Bangladeshi Dream Factory is in Disarray.- 10. Summary and Conclusion.