Popular Hindi films offer varied cinematic representations ranging from realistic portraits of patriotic heroes to complex fantasies that go beyond escapism. In Dream Machine; Samir Dayal provides a history of Hindi cinema starting with films made after Indiarsquo;s independence in 1947. He constructs a decade-by-decade consideration of Hindi cinemarsquo;s role as a site for the construction of ldquo;Indianness.rdquo; Dayal suggests that Hindi cinema functions as both mirror and lamp; reflecting and illuminating new and possible representations of national and personal identity; beginning with early postcolonial films including Awaara and Mother India; a classic of the Golden Age. More recent films address critical social issues; such as My Name is Khan and Fire; which concern terrorism and sexuality; respectively. Dayalalso chronicles changes in the industry and in audience reception; and the influence of globalization; considering such films as Slumdog Millionaire. Dream Machine analyzes the social and aesthetic realism of these films concerning poverty and work; the emergence of the middle class; crime; violence; and the law while arguing for their sustained and critical attention to forms of fantasy.
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