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The Strange Case of The Princess and the Frog: Passing and the Elision of Race
- Ajay Gehlawat
- Sociology
- 7 May 2010
This paper examines the negotiations of race in The Princess and the Frog within the dual contexts of its setting and release. Central to these negotiations are Tiana’s racial identity and her… Expand
Reframing Bollywood: Theories of Popular Hindi Cinema
- Ajay Gehlawat
- Art
- 8 July 2010
Introduction: Reframing Bollywood Bollywood and its Implied Viewers The Bollywood Song and Dance, or Making a Culinary Theatre from Dung-cakes and Dust Can the Bollywood Film Speak to the Subaltern?… Expand
The Gori in the Story: The Shifting Dynamics of Whiteness in the Bollywood Film
- Ajay Gehlawat
- Art
- 1 November 2011
This paper examines the evolving representations of whiteness in Bollywood film through an exploration of the figure of the gori, or white woman. Coded as both essentially Other and desirable, this… Expand
The metatext of Bajirao Mastani: intolerance in the time of Modi
- Ajay Gehlawat
- Sociology
- 3 July 2017
ABSTRACT Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Bajirao Mastani (2015) utilizes an historical account to (re)tell a contemporary story. While Bhansali takes great pains to disavow any intention of religious… Expand
The “Slumdog” Phenomenon: Slumdog Comprador: Coming to Terms with the Slumdog Phenomenon
- Ajay Gehlawat
- Geography
- 22 December 2009
Every time a film made by a Western director about India gains critical acclaim in the West, two related phenomena seem to also occur: the greatest hits of negative stereotypes are brought out and… Expand
From Indianization to Globalization: Tracking Bond in Bollywood
- Ajay Gehlawat
- Political Science
- 15 October 2020
The Bollywood Song and Dance, or Making a Culinary Theatre from Dung-Cakes and Dust
- Ajay Gehlawat
- Art
- 1 August 2006
Along with the melodrama, another (western) form that is used to position the Bollywood film within an antediluvian context is the musical, particularly as exemplified by Hollywood’s “Golden Years”… Expand