Contested Representation

Dhananjay Rai

doi:10.5771/9781666901344

Summary

Popular Hindi cinema has become a significant signpost of contemporaneity due to its construction of social language. Generally, Hindi cinema has been understood through internal (auteur or genre or cinéma verité) and external aspects (consumption spheres and moviegoers’ complex response in the form of catharsis or everydayness mimesis). However, cinema also needs a new way of discerning with respect to ‘Dalit Representation’. The study needs to look at the construction and meaning of the social language of Hindi cinema. Construction refers to exploring factors beyond the film industry responsible for shaping the social language. Meaning entails the exhibition of social language in the form of messages. Herein, relational exploration becomes crucial. The relationship between factors of social language of Hindi cinema and Dalits must be unraveled for understanding the meaning of social language for Dalits. Contested representation encompasses the nature of absence and presence of Dalits in Hindi cinema.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-0133-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-0134-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 256
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
1. Prelude No access
2. Conundrums No access
3. Methodological Concerns No access
4. 1. Dalits No access
  2. Public Sphere No access
  3. Popular No access
  4. Popular Hindi Cinema No access
  5. Social Language No access
5. Taxonomy No access
6. Pertinence No access
7. Notes No access
1. 1. Domination of Social Language and Restriction of Tools No access
  2. Evasion of Realisation of Dominance No access
  3. Identification of Domination/Dominance of Social Language No access
  4. Rejuvenation by Way of Social Language No access
  5. Marxism and Issue of Realisation of Domination, Challenge and Rejuvenation of Social Language No access
2. Dalits and Material Spheres No access
3. Dalits and Social Spheres No access
4. Dalit Response to Material Spheres No access
5. 1. Dalit: An Arrival of New Social No access
  2. Biography of the Concept No access
6. Tools of Social Language in Dalit Movements No access
7. Notes No access
1. The Idea of Public No access
2. 1. Factors of the Emergence of the Public Sphere and Its Value for Social Language No access
3. 1. 1. Jürgen Habermas and Rejuvenation of the Public Sphere No access
    2. Critics and Rejuvenation No access
4. Negation of the Nature of Social Language of the Public Sphere No access
5. Origin and Expansion of Indian Public Sphere No access
6. State’s Response to the Indian Public Sphere No access
7. 1. In Pursuit of Creating Social Language No access
  2. Deterring Social Language No access
  3. Controlling Social Language No access
8. Notes No access
1. Social Language of Entertainment No access
2. Cinematic Social Language: Dual Possibilities No access
3. 1. 1. Subsiding of a Particular Culture in Hindi Cinema No access
    2. Tradition versus Oppressive Modernity No access
    3. Minifying Tradition No access
  2. Criticism No access
4. 1. 1. Cinema Swaying Society No access
    2. Cinema under Tutelage of Society No access
    3. Cinema and Society: Insulated Relationship No access
    4. Cinema and Society: Internal Conflict and Universalistic Concern No access
  2. Criticism No access
5. 1. Factors of Cinematic Construction No access
  2. Cinema as Ideological State Apparatus No access
  3. Criticism No access
6. 1. Sources of Cinematic Social Language No access
  2. Meaning of Cinematic Social Language’s Content No access
  3. In Pursuit of Alternative Content No access
  4. Criticism No access
7. 1. Entertainment and Aesthetic Perspective No access
  2. Criticism No access
8. 1. Criticism No access
9. In Search of an Alternative Perspective No access
10. Notes No access
1. Selecting Films No access
2. 1. Sujata: The Leading Protagonist as Dalit No access
  2. Sholay: Absence of Dalit No access
  3. Swades: We the People: Presence of Dalits No access
3. Applying Six Perspectives on Three Films No access
4. 1. Foregrounding of Problems No access
  2. Problems under Multi-Polarity of Dominant Material Spheres and Singularity of Dominant Social Sphere No access
  3. Solution as Reconciliation No access
  4. Creation of Three Priorities No access
  5. Abdication of Third Priority No access
  6. Occupation of First Priority No access
  7. Inclusion and Exclusion as Dynamic Process No access
  8. Relative Autonomy as a Fructuous Enterprise No access
5. Notes No access
Chapter 5: Conclusion No access Pages 215 - 222
1. Films No access
2. PRIMARY (NON-FILMS) AND SECONDARY SOURCES No access
Index No access Pages 249 - 254
About the Author No access Pages 255 - 256