Seeing Kolkata: Globalization and the Changing Context of the Narrative of Bengali-ness in Two Contemporary Films
| Autor: | Binayak Bhattacharya |
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| Přispěvatelé: | University of Zurich, Bhattacharya, Binayak |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Hindi
Middle class business.industry Chemistry A102 3 media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences General Engineering Media studies 050801 communication & media studies Context (language use) language.human_language 0506 political science Movie theater Politics Globalization 0508 media and communications Bengali 950 History of Asia 050602 political science & public administration language Narrative business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques. 73:559-574 |
| ISSN: | 2235-5871 0004-4717 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/asia-2019-0050 |
| Popis: | The article engages with the question of an exclusivity, an ‘otherness’ of the Bengali culture, in the available representative modes of Indian cinema. It studies the socio-cultural dynamics through which this ‘otherness’ can be found reorienting itself in recent years in a globalized perspective. It takes two contemporary films, Kahaani (Hindi, 2012) and Bhooter Bhobishyot (Bengali, 2012) to dwell upon. The analysis aims to historicise the construction of a cultural stereotype called ‘Bengali-ness’ in Indian cinema by marking some significant aspects in the course of its historical development. Using the films as cases in point, the article attempts to develop a framework in which the changing landscape of the city of Kolkata, shifting codes of the cultural habits of the middle class and reconfigured ideas about a ‘Bengali nation’ can be seen operating to develop a refashioned relationship between the state of Bengal and the rest of the country. It suggests that the global cultural inflow, along with the localized notions of the new, globalized Bengali-ness, are engaged in developing a new politics of representation for the city and the Bengali society in the cinemas of India. |
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