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- Title
BOYHOOD, IDEOLOGY, AND POPULAR HINDI CINEMA.
- Authors
Chattopadhyay, Saayan
- Abstract
Popular cinema in India has been identified as providing rich cultural texts for understanding the legitimization of ideological and political hegemony, especially through narrative- cinematic forms popular in the post-colonial Indian public sphere. An impressive amount of literature has explored the various trajectories of discourses regarding the postcolonial nation-state, family, and the iconic presence of the mother informing the narrative organization of popular Hindi cinema. However, representation of boyhood within the specific narrative and visual rhetoric of popular Hindi cinema received little scholarly attention. This essay traces the representation of boyhood and adolescence-- first, as predominantly integrated within the narrative of male protagonists' early life, a popular cinematic motifs in 1970s and 1980s which, interestingly enough, has somewhat disappeared from post-liberalization Hindi cinema; and second, as a discursively formed narrative agent with specific ideological and psychological connotations. Drawing analogies from a range of Indian literary works on and for children, I explore how concomitant cinematic tropes serve to reiterate and negotiate ideological and social codes interlacing gender, sexuality, class, and caste, not however without leaving fissures for subaltern agency.
- Subjects
HINDI films; POPULAR films; BOYS in motion pictures; IDEOLOGY in motion pictures; POSTCOLONIALISM in motion pictures; CHILDREN'S literature
- Publication
Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies, 2011, Vol 5, Issue 2, p138
- ISSN
1931-9045
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3149/thy.0502.138