Gender, Nation and Popular Film in India: Globalizing Muscular Nationalism - Hardback

By drawing on popular films, this book unpacks a particular gendered vision of nation in the modern Indian context. This "muscular nationalism" is an intersection of a specific vision of masculinity with the political doctrine of nationalism: the idea of nation is animated by an idea of manhood associated with martial prowess, muscular strength and toughness, but coupled with the image and construct of virtuous woman - a gendered binary, martial man/chaste woman.

• | Author: Sikata Banerjee
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Dec 19, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 152 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1138653993
• | ISBN-13: 9781138653993