Reading 'bollywood'

The Young Audience and Hindi Films

By: Shakuntala Banaji

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Hardcover | 1 September 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Reading 'Bollywood' explores the connections between representations of gender, sexuality and ethnicity in Hindi films, socio-political contexts and the construction of gender, sexual and ethnic identity by young audience members in India and the UK. Extended excerpts from in-depth interviews with young viewers, observations and original photographs provide exciting and unique insights about spectatorship as well as material for comparison with theories about Hindi film and studies of film audiences and popular culture worldwide.

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'Her [Banaji's] book is theoretically well grounded, both in debates concerning Hindi films and in audience studies more generally.' - Par Stahlberg, Young (Nordic Journal of Youth Research)

'Banaji's insightful account in Reading 'Bollywood' enables a substantially finer appreciation of the practices of film-viewing among youth audiences in India and the UK. The refreshing approach and analysis set out in this book compel a serious reconsideration of theories around spectatorship, ideology, identity, and agency. An important contribution to film and cultural studies.'

- Rashmi Sawhney, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland

'This is a really brave book: brave in its exploration of responses to Bollywood films among Indians in Bombay and London; brave in its range exploring both personal and political aspects in them; and brave in its honest admission when findings challenge her expectations. Banaji's book is a major contribution to empirical audience research.'

- Martin Barker, Emeritus Professor, Aberystwyth University, UK

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List of Illustrations	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Hindi Films: Theoretical Debates and Textual Studies	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Early accounts: from escapist fantasy to textual pleasure	p. 1
Ideology, hegemony and interpellation: exploiting the form of Hindi films	p. 8
Cultural constructions: textual analysis and feminist critique	p. 14
Beyond simplistic oppositions	p. 17
Conclusion	p. 18
Audiences and Hindi Films: Contemporary Studies	p. 20
Hindi films and the South-Asian Diaspora	p. 20
Reconciling 'tradition' and 'modernity'? North Indian men watching movies	p. 25
Beyond 'escapism' and 'reality': North Indian women watching television	p. 27
Conclusion	p. 30
Contemporary Hindi Film-Going and the Viewing Context in Two Countries	p. 33
Why watch audiences?	p. 33
Cinema halls and audiences in historical and geographic perspective	p. 35
Going to the cinema in Bombay: reality, refuge or romance?	p. 38
Hindi films in London: ethnic nostalgia or empowered viewing?	p. 48
Conclusion	p. 52
'A man who smokes should never marry a village girl': Comments on Courtship and Marriage 'Hindi Film-Style'	p. 55
First, the texts	p. 56
Everyone's favourite movie	p. 58
Romancing the family: Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! and its viewers	p. 78
Conclusion	p. 88
Short Skirts, Long Veils and Dancing Men: Responses to Dress and the Body	p. 91
Show and sell: young viewers read clothing in Hindi films	p. 91
Clothing, the body and the erotic promise of Hindi films	p. 98
Conclusion	p. 102
More or Less Spicy Kisses: Responses to Sex Love and Sexuality	p. 104
Contextualising the Indian media sex debate	p. 104
Taboo scenes: kissing, sex and the 'innocent' viewer	p. 106
Sexuality, chastity and national honour: 'being' Indian in Switzerland and various other sexual encounters	p. 111
Conclusion: films, experience and meaning	p. 126
Politics and Spectatorship 1: Viewing Love, Religion and Violence	p. 130
Introduction	p. 130
Films, viewers and the politics of Hindutva fascism	p. 132
'Counterfeit collective memories': riots, religion and subjectivity in contemporary Hindi films	p. 135
The pleasures and pitfalls of 'othering': inter-religious romance meets jingoistic nationalism	p. 147
Conclusion	p. 154
Politics and Spectatorship 2: Young Men Viewing Terrorism and State Violence	p. 160
Countenancing cinematic terrorism: young men take on the state	p. 160
Conclusion	p. 166
Conclusion: The Tricky Politics of Viewing Pleasure	p. 167
Looking back at texts and audiences	p. 167
Looking back at gender, sexuality and spectatorship	p. 170
Politics and spectatorship	p. 173
India and the United Kingdom	p. 175
A note of caution	p. 177
Implications for the future	p. 178
Notes	p. 181
Bibliography	p. 187
Filmography	p. 198
Index	p. 201
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