By drawing on popular films, this book unpacks a particular gendered vision of nation in the modern Indian context. This "muscular nationalism" is an intersection of a specific vision of masculinity with the political doctrine of nationalism: the idea of nation is animated by an idea of manhood associated with martial prowess, muscular strength and toughness, but coupled with the image and construct of virtuous woman ¿ a gendered binary, martial man/chaste woman.
By drawing on popular films, this book unpacks a particular gendered vision of nation in the modern Indian context. This "muscular nationalism" is an intersection of a specific vision of masculinity with the political doctrine of nationalism: the idea of nation is animated by an idea of manhood associated with martial prowess, muscular strength and toughness, but coupled with the image and construct of virtuous woman ¿ a gendered binary, martial man/chaste woman.
Sikata Banerjee is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: Gender, Nation, and Popular Film in a Globalizing India 2. Changing Norms and Contexts of Masculinity in Indian Popular Film 3. Nation, Manhood, and the Legacy of the British Gaze: The Presentist Use of History in Film 4. The Muslim Body in Indian Muscular Nationalism 5. Imagining the Diaspora: Social Anxieties, and the Transnational Middle Class in India 6. Conclusion: Muscular Nationalism and Film: Some Final Thoughts
1. Introduction: Gender, Nation, and Popular Film in a Globalizing India 2. Changing Norms and Contexts of Masculinity in Indian Popular Film 3. Nation, Manhood, and the Legacy of the British Gaze: The Presentist Use of History in Film 4. The Muslim Body in Indian Muscular Nationalism 5. Imagining the Diaspora: Social Anxieties, and the Transnational Middle Class in India 6. Conclusion: Muscular Nationalism and Film: Some Final Thoughts
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