There Once Was a Maiden and a Middle Class
The Making of a Neoliberal Thriller
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2162797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jyotsna Kapur (0000-0002-4038-9749, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 155-166 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08949460802623721 |
| OpenAlex | W2004698108 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
Coinciding with India's turn to neoliberalism, a new genre-the conspiracy thriller-has appeared in popular Hindi cinema. Its aesthetics of speed, movement, and surprise express the fear and furious reasoning of an individual who must save her- or himself from a conspiracy that threatens to destroy them. This article contextualizes the genre in the urban spaces of neoliberalism, its architecture of private enclosures, and the paranoid subjectivities it has produced. Notes Anjali Puri [2008]. Many thanks to Sunny Yoon and Aarti Wani for their helpful comments and critique. For more elaboration, see Jyotsna Kapur and Manjunath Pendakur [2007]. Additional informationNotes on contributorsJyotsna Kapur Jyotsna Kapur is an Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Sociology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She is the author of Coining for Capital: Movies, Marketing, and the Transformation of Childhood [Rutgers, 2005] and is currently finishing a book-length project on the cultural politics of the "new global generation" that is coming of age in the midst of India's recent turn to neoliberalism. E-mail: [email protected]
Neoliberalism (international relations · Surprise · Cinema and Media Studies · South Asian Cinema and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2017 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |