The Nuclear Imaginary and Indian Popular Cinema
The Nuclear Imaginary and Indian Popular Cinema
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核想象与印度大众电影
DOI：
10.1080/00856401.2013.831393
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发表时间：
2013
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通讯作者：
Kaur R
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作者：
Kaur R
在这篇文章中，我认为国家政策和流行文化之间的接口，通过检查核武器的问题，并围绕印度流行电影。虽然有人指出，印度电影中没有核毁灭的电影例子，但我认为，核毁灭的威胁是显而易见的。核技术深深地卷入了对国家、家庭等国家组成部分以及地方自治主义和分离主义等反对者的焦虑之中。这些令人不安的动态并不能像官方国家言论那样，在核与国家之间建立直接的联盟，核武器被提倡作为印度当代军事实力的一种衡量标准，或者换句话说，“核民族主义”。电影把核武器描绘成危险的国家毁灭者，而不是国家的建设者，因为导弹对人民和文明构成威胁，特别是在恐怖主义者和那些对印度国家有企图的人手中。这一表述隐含着对国家政策的批评，但在影片结尾，当主人公避免灾难和/或援引国家作为核管理的典范时，国家政策充满了爱国主义言论。
In this article I consider the interface between state policy and popular culture by examining the issue of nuclear weapons in and around Indian popular cinema. Whilst it has been pointed out that there are no cinematic examples of nuclear annihilation in Indian film, I propose instead that the threat of it is nevertheless evident. Nuclear technology is deeply entangled in anxieties about the nation, its constituents such as the family, and its detractors such as forces to do with communalism and separatism. These disquieting dynamics do not enable a straightforward alliance between the nuclear and the national as official state discourse would have it, where nuclear weapons are advocated as a measure of India's military might in the contemporary era, or in other words, ‘nuclear nationalism’. Rather than being nation-builders, films present nuclear weapons as dangerous nation-destroyers, for missiles harbour threats to people and civilisations especially in the hands of the figurative terrorist and those with designs against the nation of India. With this formulation there lies a latent critique of state policy, which nevertheless is imbued with patriotic rhetoric by the end of the film, when the hero averts disaster and/or invokes the state as the paragon of nuclear management.
表演政治和印度教文化：印度西部宗教的公共用途
影响因子：
0.3
作者：
Zemirah Moffat
通讯作者：
Zemirah Moffat