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- Title
The Strange Disappearance of Bombay from its Own Cinema: A Case of Imperialism or Globalization?
- Authors
Kapur, Jyotsna; Pendakur, Manjunath
- Abstract
Coinciding with the Indian government's initiation of neo-liberal economic ‘reforms’ in 1991 a new phenomenon started to appear in popular Hindi cinema: The actual city of Bombay disappeared as a location giving way to an entirely fictitious Bombay. This paper explains the connections between the textual disappearance of Bombay and the contemporary integration of India into global capital; the political economy of the changing audience and rvenues for Hindi cinema and its textual representations of public and private space; and finally the contradictory ways in which capitalism both integrates the globe and fragments it. Our analysis is located in recent theoretical attempts to understand the changing nature of urban spaces in contemporary capitalism, the emergence of a transnational bourgeoisie, and draws attention to the continuing relevance of the term imperialism in analyzing global capital.
- Subjects
MUMBAI (India); INDIA; HINDI films; NEOLIBERALISM; IMPERIALISM; GLOBALIZATION
- Publication
Democratic Communiqué, 2007, Vol 21, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
1555-8967
- Publication type
Article