Gender, Nation And Popular Film In India (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

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.

• • Author: Sikata Banerjee
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Dec 19, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 152 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138653993
• • ISBN-13: 9781138653993