Consuming Bollywood

Hindi popular cinema, marked with sartorial, visual and material excess, has paradoxically portrayed acquisition of wealth or unregulated consumption as inimical to the Chaturvarga philosophy, or the idea that an individual should seek four goods – Artha (wealth), Kama (pleasure), Dharma (duty) and...

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Main Author: Roy, Anjali Gera 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2020
In: The journal of religion and film
Year: 2020, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-40
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bollywood / Hinduism / Purushartha / Consumerism
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
KBM Asia
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
Further subjects:B Moksha
B Consumption
B Song
B Artha
B bhoga
B Dance
B Dharma
B dana
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