TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose The chapter explores how gender has been an integral part of the nation building project in post-liberalisation Hindi cinema, popularly, known as Bollywood.Design/methodology/approach This chapter is based on primary data gathered through interviews with prominent members of the Hindi film industry along with a detailed content analysis of commercially successful post-liberalisation mainstream Hindi films.Findings It highlights how the representation of gender has been a central axis around which the tension between tradition and modernity has been played out in Hindi Cinema. The construction of Indianness post-liberalisation has questioned gender politics but proposed easy resolutions which fit into the larger nationalist narrative. In doing so, it has used the diaspora as a category to produce a nationalist account which is simultaneously essentialised and transnational in the quest for projecting India’s aspirations on the global platform.Originality/value The chapter provides important insights into the role of popular Hindi cinema, often brushed off as frivolous, in contributing to the mainstream discourse on nationalism post-liberalisation.
VL  - 21
SN  - 978-1-78635-037-4, 978-1-78635-038-1/1529-2126
DO  - 10.1108/S1529-212620160000021012
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-212620160000021012
AU  - Kaul Priyasha
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/01/01
TI  - Gender in Post-Liberalisation India: The Complex Trajectories of Gender and (Postcolonial) Nationalism in Hindi Cinema
T2  - Gender and Race Matter: Global Perspectives on Being a Woman
T3  - Advances in Gender Research
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 213
EP  - 229
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -