Samir Chopra

Bollywood Does Battle

The War Movie and the Indian Popular Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

War is part of the story of the Indian nation; its presence in India's past continues to shape the Indian present and future. The 1962 China war, the 1971 Bangladesh war and the 1999 Kargil conflict all play outsized roles in the Indian popular imagination. The Indian film industry's war movies play an acute role in representing this aspect o...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9789353578312
• ISBN-10: 9353578310
• Artikelnr.: 73789113

Autorenporträt

Samir Chopra is professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He blogs at The Cordon on ESPNcricinfo and at www.samirchopra.com. He can be found on Twitter as @EyeOnThePitch. He is the co-author or author of: The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965 (Manohar Publishers, 2005); Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software (Routledge, 2007); A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents (University of Michigan Press, 2011); Brave New Pitch: The Evolution of Modern Cricket (HarperCollins India, 2012); and Eagles Over Bangladesh: The Indian Air Force in the 1971 Liberation War (HarperCollins India, 2013)."