عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
T776
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Cinema and the villager: Analyzing rural India's changing access to Hindi film
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
;supervisor: Garcia, Dorothy L.; Tinkcom, Matthew
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Georgetown University: United States -- District of Columbia
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
: 2013
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
96 Pages
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
M.A.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Much of Hindi film scholarship focuses on the industry's globalization and its diversifying audience demographics in recent years. As a result of this outward focus, Indian villagers have been greatly ignored in Hindi film research, despite making up 70% of the country's population. This thesis argues that by using the lens of comparative historical sociology, we can understand the overlapping and connected changes in technological, social and institutional contexts in post-independence India, and how these changes have affected the extent to which rural Indians have accessed Hindi cinema, both pragmatically and emotionally. Important historical processes to consider include the diffusion of ICTs, lingering effects of the caste system, and the globalization of the Hindi film industry. Re-conceptualizing the historical contexts as networks helps focus the analysis on issues of access, where connections exist, and how different actors are included--or excluded. Furthermore, this thesis supplements a macro historical lens with content analysis, which illustrates how broader changes manifest in cultural texts. In particular, examining ten Hindi films from 1953 to 2009, this thesis examines the changing narrative of on-screen portrayal of rural India. This multilayered long durée perspective not only helps map historical shifts occurring simultaneously in multiple 'networks,' but also shows how more explosive changes in the short durée--such as recent ICT diffusion and Bollywood's globalization--relate to the broader multiple-network system. As a result, we find a complex cyclical relationship between Hindi film and the broader technological, social, and institutional contexts from which these cultural texts emerge.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
South Asian Studies
Social structure
Film studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Social sciences
Subject Term
Communication and the arts
Subject Term
India
Subject Term
Bollywood
Subject Term
Comparative historical sociology
Subject Term
Hindi film
Subject Term
Networks
Subject Term
Representation
Subject Term
Villages
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Padmanabhan, Mallika
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Tinkcom, Matthew, supervisor
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
Garcia, Dorothy L., supervisor
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
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TL776.pdf
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