Provincializing Bollywood: Bhojpuri Cinema in the Comparative Media Crucible

Provincializing Bollywood: Bhojpuri Cinema in the Comparative Media Crucible
Situating it at the intersection of vernacular media production and the infrastructural-political reordering of provincial north India, the book shows that Bhojpuri media's characteristic 'disobedience' is marked by a libidinal excess - simultaneously scandalizing and moralizing - to address the inexact calculi of Bhojpuri speaking region's 'underdevelopment'.

Author/Editor

Akshaya Kumar

Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

9780190130183

Publication date

1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2021

Specialisation

Social Sciences

Theme

Media

Region

India