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Bollywood Is Bangladeshi! Hindi Film and the Formation of a Middle-Class Audience

Bollywood Is Bangladeshi! Hindi Film and the Formation of a Middle-Class Audience

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Bollywood Is Bangladeshi! Hindi Film and the Formation of a Middle-Class Audience

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Bollywood Is Bangladeshi! Hindi Film and the Formation of a Middle-Class Audience

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Nagoya: Nanzan University

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Asian folklore studies, 2020-07, Vol.79 (2), p.279-300

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English

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Nagoya: Nanzan University

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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 values and status are attached to Hindi popular ci...

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Bollywood Is Bangladeshi! Hindi Film and the Formation of a Middle-Class Audience

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1882-6865

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