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- Title
Undesirable Bodies and Desirable Labor: Documenting the Globalization and Digitization of Transnational American Dreams in Indian Call Centers.
- Authors
HUDSON, DALE
- Abstract
With their emphasis on digitally mediated performance and illusion, Indian call centers are an unruly subject for realist modes of documentary. This article rethinks documentary practices by comparing documentaries that sustain globalization's illusions of interface and access to the American dream with documentaries that disrupt these illusions.
- Subjects
INDIA; DOCUMENTARY films; CALL centers; AMERICAN Dream; INDIA in motion pictures; CALL center agents; GLOBALIZATION in motion pictures
- Publication
Cinema Journal, 2009, Vol 49, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
0009-7101
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cj.0.0164