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An insightful analysis and impact assessment of the ways in which India is portrayed on different screens in the west
This book examines the nuances of multiple images-cinema, TV, computer, and smartphones-that feed into the making of a new Indian narrative and showcase an India that is very different from the unilinear notion that used to exist a few decades ago. It elaborates on the critical role of the impressions formed in redefining how the Indian diaspora ...
Movies play a powerful role in the public sphere and implicate the way in which an audience begins to think about the 'reality' that each movie supposedly depicts. This book investigates the representation of Indians in Western films and locates this analysis within the context of the larger issue of the manner in which Indian immigrants are viewed in the west today. Covering a large spectrum of films across several decades, the book conducts its critique by ...