Bollywood In Bangladesh: Cultural Hegemony In A South Asian Nation
by Harisur Rahman /
2020 / English / PDF
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The purpose of this book is to disseminate knowledge on Indias growing cultural hegemony over South Asia among a wide readership within and beyond the academia. It achieves the goal by exploring a new field of investigation, the accounts of the changing CD-DVD and cable business, video channels, urban media infrastructures, fashion shopping choices, media piracy, viewers preferences, regional tensions and hegemonic cultures, the contradictions within the positions of film critics and activists, the recent controversy over Hindi films in Bangladeshi cinema halls: all these themes are presented in the book. The book draws on relevant literature from anthropology, sociology, film, media, communication, and cultural studies to explore the concepts of hegemony, circulation, viewership, cultural taste, and South Asian cultural history and politics.
