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Short Skirts, Long Veils and Dancing Men: Responses to Dress and the Body,h of my interviewees in conjunction with issues as diverse as sexual fantasy, financial status, religion, an apparent deterioration of moral values, and sexual harassment. One of the most common strands in discussions about dress and sexuality on-screen was an appeal to . as grounds for censorship o

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More or Less Spicy Kisses: Responses to Sex, Love and Sexuality,ations in a supposedly ‘typical’ urban Indian setting. An early sequence between the hero and one of his female college friends, ‘Anna’, allows a glimpse of the treatment of ‘other’ sexualities in Hindi films. Having had her advances rejected by the hero, Anna proceeds to interrogate his sexuality,

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Politics and Spectatorship 1: Viewing Love, Religion and Violence, Indian state apparatus — is a subject that cannot easily be encompassed by words on a page. Yet in a book about the discursive universes of contemporary Hindi film viewers, it is necessary to reiterate the connections between right-wing discourses on gender, sexuality and religious intolerance in I

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Hindi Films: Theoretical Debates and Textual Studies,bly, these include debates surrounding the . of Hindi cinema, the connections between . and ., the . and . of the medium, the significance of . for spectatorship and the role of what is characterised by Fareed Kazmi (1999) as the ‘tradition-modernity paradigm’.

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Contemporary Hindi Film-Going and the Viewing Context in Two Countries,o these types don’t attend so much.’ Some of the assumptions made here are so evidently prejudiced along lines of class or gender that we might discount them. Others contain more subtle misapprehensions and may well enter cultural studies literature around Hindi films without much debate.

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Politics and Spectatorship 2: Young Men Viewing Terrorism and State Violence, confused sympathies and very different ideological standpoints, sympathy for the hero — who is provoked or impelled to seek . justice or revenge by entering a terrorist organisation — is the one factor that unites these three very different viewers.