Overview
- Repositions Bangladesh in the South Asian cultural scene and contributes new knowledge, perspectives, and understandings about cultural consumption and India’s regional hegemonic power and its relations with smaller neighbors
- Demonstrates how Indian films expose class differentiation within Bangladesh while reinforcing India’s cultural hegemony
- Offers interdisciplinary analysis drawing upon methodologies and perspectives from anthropology, sociology, media studies, communication, film studies, and cultural studies
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This book examines the circulation and viewership of Bollywood films and filmi modernity in Bangladesh. The writer poses a number of fundamental questions: what it means to be a Bangladeshi in South Asia, what it means to be a Bangladeshi fan of Hindi film, and how popular film reflects power relations in South Asia. The writer argues that partition has resulted in India holding hegemonic power over all of South Asia’s nation-states at the political, economic, and military levels–a situation that has made possible its cultural hegemony. 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.
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Reviews
— Professor Rajinder Dudrah, Birmingham City University, UK
'In the world of film scholarship, as in the world(s) of South Asian popular culture, Bollywood has enjoyed a hegemonic position. Rahman’s work opens a unique window on the social, political, academic, technological and cultural dynamics of that hegemony. He provides a long-needed voice for Bangaladeshi film culture and film industry.'
— Professor Gregory D Booth, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
'In an engaging and comprehensive manner the book provides an overview of the circulation of Bollywood films in Bangladesh and their impacts on society and culture industry. A must read for anyone interested in exploring the relationship between film consumption, cultural hegemony and social inequality.'
— Professor Kristin Skare Orgeret, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Harisur Rahman is Assistant Professor at North South University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He holds a Ph.D. degree in anthropology from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His dissertation examined the circulation and viewership of Indian films in Bangladesh. His research interests include media anthropology, cultural circulation and consumption, intercultural communication, film and media
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Consuming Cultural Hegemony
Book Subtitle: Bollywood in Bangladesh
Authors: Harisur Rahman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31707-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31706-5Published: 06 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31709-6Published: 21 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31707-2Published: 22 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 243
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Global Cinema and TV, Global/International Culture, Asian Cinema and TV, Asian Culture, Media Sociology