Bollywood Is Bangladeshi! Hindi Film and the Formation of a Middle-Class Audience.
Based on ethnographic research, in this article I suggest that with the consumption of Indian film and film-mediated culture and modernity, India's cultural hegemony and class inequalities in Bangladesh are reinforced. Following Bourdieu's (1984) concept of "distinction," I explain how middle-class...
| Publicado en: | Asian Ethnology Vol. 79; no. 2; pp. 279 - 301 |
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Nanzan University
2020
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