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The unemployed hero in Indian Tamil cinema: Perspectives on youth, gender and aspiration 印度泰米尔电影中的失业英雄:对青年、性别和抱负的看法
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1386/safm_00019_1
Nandini Hebbar N.
In this article, I explore the portrayal of the information technology (IT) boom in Indian Tamil cinema to think through representations of unemployed youth. Three main questions anchor this article: one, what are the ways in which unemployment is problematized? Two, how are depictions of unemployment (and employment) gendered? How do gendered representations of unemployment feed into dominant tropes of language, given the Dravidian orientation of Tamil cinema? Three, how are these crises resolved, and what imaginaries do they present of relationships between men and women? Through a reading of three recent films that directly or indirectly relate to the IT boom, I offer an analysis of the privileging of certain professions, skills and academic disciplines under capitalism, its effects on employment prospects for youth, as well as its gendered implications. I argue that the films assert a subculture of masculinity that represents the subaltern male’s encounter with the globalizing city and its many transformations – most visibly the feminization of labour represented by the IT industry. Refuting the claim that cinema has positively embraced neoliberal subjectivity and celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit of youth, I show that the ‘unemployed hero’ is constructed as a social conscience to highlight the problems of a globalizing world. Though many aspects of late capitalism are productively critiqued through such consciousness-raising, the breakdown of traditional gendered roles appears as a leitmotif, exposing the gendered nature of anxieties accompanying the IT boom. The remaking and consolidation of masculine identity then becomes a way to manage these anxieties.
在这篇文章中,我探讨了印度泰米尔电影中信息技术(IT)繁荣的写照,以思考失业青年的表现。这篇文章主要有三个问题:第一,失业问题的解决方式是什么?第二,对失业(和就业)的描述是如何性别化的?鉴于泰米尔电影的德拉威风格,对失业的性别化表述是如何融入语言的主流比喻的?第三,这些危机是如何解决的,它们对男女关系有什么想象?通过阅读最近三部与信息技术繁荣直接或间接相关的电影,我分析了资本主义下某些职业、技能和学术学科的特权,它对青年就业前景的影响,以及它的性别影响。我认为,这些电影断言了一种男性亚文化,它代表了下层男性与全球化城市的相遇及其许多转变——最明显的是IT行业所代表的劳动力女性化。我驳斥了电影积极接受新自由主义主体性并颂扬年轻人创业精神的说法,表明“失业英雄”被构建为一种社会良知,以突出全球化世界的问题。尽管晚期资本主义的许多方面都通过这种意识的提高而受到了富有成效的批评,但传统性别角色的崩溃似乎是一个主旋律,暴露了伴随IT繁荣而来的焦虑的性别本质。重塑和巩固男性身份就成为了应对这些焦虑的一种方式。
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引用次数: 1
Standing the provincial ground: Childhood and parental authority in Dangal (2016) 站在地方立场:摔跤吧爸爸的童年与父母权威(2016)
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1386/safm_00018_1
Akshaya Kumar
In the sales pitch for the 2016 blockbuster film Dangal, the gender question was heavily foregrounded to hail the sports biopic of a commonwealth gold medallist from rural Haryana. However, the film was also criticized for the patriarchal control of the desires of the wrestler-daughters, who gradually take cognizance of their potential. This article argues that we need to address a different trajectory to make full sense of the film, in spite of its marketing strategy. Taking its cues from sports biopics, figurations of obstinate provincial masculinity and neoliberal childhood, Dangal revisits much-maligned parental authority to foreground the question of moral resourcefulness. The state and nation in Dangal, I would argue, are decoupled from a provincial vantage point. Standing apart from generic biopics, Dangal’s heroes are in a standoff with the state’s essentially colonial character and its metropolitan kernel. Their public insubordination deserves a robust analysis of the antecedents from within film history, to reassemble Dangal’s urgent critique.
在2016年大片《摔跤吧!爸爸》(Dangal)的宣传中,性别问题被放在了突出位置,以向这部体育传记片致敬。这部电影讲述了一位来自哈里亚纳邦农村的英联邦金牌得主的故事。然而,这部电影也因男权对摔跤运动员女儿们欲望的控制而受到批评,她们逐渐认识到自己的潜力。本文认为,我们需要解决一个不同的轨迹,以充分理解电影,尽管它的营销策略。《摔跤吧!爸爸》从体育传记片、顽固的乡土男子气概和新自由主义童年中汲取灵感,重新审视了饱受诟病的父母权威,突出了道德智谋的问题。我认为,《摔跤吧!爸爸》中的国家和民族与省的优势是分离的。与一般的传记片不同,《摔跤吧!爸爸》中的英雄们与该州本质上的殖民特征及其大都市内核处于对峙状态。他们的公开反抗值得对电影史上的先例进行有力的分析,以重新组合摔跤吧!
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引用次数: 3
Pakodas, jugad and the vernacular fetish: Youth subcultures in late neoliberal India 帕克达斯、朱加德和乡土恋物癖:新自由主义印度晚期的青年亚文化
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1386/safm_00016_1
N. Chandra
My article talks about the vernacular in terms of a fantasy relation, drawing on Lauren Berlant’s understanding of love/desire as a fantasy that is always staged through a concrete setting, ‘the place where the subject encounters herself already negotiating the social’. This site of fantasy is moreover the one triggered by the trauma of natal separation. This in-between reality of the vernacular as a lost memory as well as a fantasy of the real makes it an ideal fetish figure for our times. I explain the fetish for the concrete in the context of a post-hegemonic, post-ideological capitalist state that has abandoned its role of catering for the subsistence needs of food, clothing and shelter of its most marginalized people as well as those who are unemployed. The compensatory succour that used to be obtained from the reproductive work of women’s domestic labour is also in crisis, given the commoditization of their care work. My article then looks at the gendered nature of the youth voices and subcultures filling this lack of systematic all-round care through the language of jugad. The valorization of jugad or the positing of concrete solutions to abstract problems actually gives us a lesson in the meaning of abstract labour, as something not merely confined to the realm of labour but to social forms (or use-values) constituted beyond the ambit of the market and judicial structures.
我的文章从幻想关系的角度讨论了白话,借鉴了劳伦·伯兰特(Lauren Berlant)对爱/欲望的理解,认为它是一种幻想,总是通过一个具体的背景来呈现,“在这个地方,主体遇到了自己,已经在社会上进行了谈判”。此外,这种幻想是由出生分离的创伤引发的。白话作为一种失落的记忆和对现实的幻想的中间现实,使其成为我们这个时代理想的恋物形象。我在一个后霸权、后意识形态的资本主义国家的背景下解释了对具体的迷恋,这个国家已经放弃了满足其最边缘化的人以及失业者的食物、衣服和住所的生存需求的角色。由于妇女家务劳动的商品化,过去从她们的生殖工作中获得的补偿性援助也处于危机之中。然后,我的文章着眼于青年声音和亚文化的性别本质,通过jugad的语言填补了这种缺乏系统的全方位关怀。抽象劳动的价值增值或抽象问题的具体解决方案的提出,实际上给我们上了一堂抽象劳动的意义的课,抽象劳动不仅局限于劳动领域,而且是超越市场和司法结构范围的社会形式(或使用价值)。
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引用次数: 0
Diglossic youth identity: The semiotic negotiations of fandom in North India 八卦青年身份:北印度狂热的符号学谈判
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1386/safm_00023_1
A. Misra
This article looks at the activities of a fan club dedicated to Shah Rukh Khan for the purpose of discerning how young men and women negotiate their identities vis-à-vis a mainstream culture that perpetuates negative stereotypes about fans. The members of the club are upper middle class from New Delhi. The study of fan culture in India is primarily organized around the assumptions that its membership comes from the urban poor youth (men) and that it is a phenomenon restricted to South India. In other words, there is a sense that fan cultures like youth subcultures develop in direct opposition to the mainstream. My contention is that youth culture in neoliberal India exhibits a more complex form of negotiation with the mainstream marked by notions of ‘timepass’ (leisure time as ‘wasteful’), compromise and ‘diglossia’ (language meant to negotiate opposed cultural perceptions and expectations to gain an entry into symbolic capital). This becomes necessary because mainstream culture maintains a consistent approach of being opposed to fan culture.
这篇文章着眼于一个致力于Shah Rukh Khan的粉丝俱乐部的活动,目的是了解年轻男女如何在主流文化中协商自己的身份,这种主流文化使对粉丝的负面刻板印象永久化。俱乐部的成员都是来自新德里的中上层阶级。对印度粉丝文化的研究主要是基于这样的假设,即粉丝文化的成员来自城市贫困青年(男性),这是一种仅限于南印度的现象。换言之,有一种感觉,像青年亚文化这样的粉丝文化是在与主流直接对立的情况下发展起来的。我的观点是,新自由主义印度的青年文化表现出一种更复杂的与主流的谈判形式,其特点是“时间流逝”(休闲时间是“浪费”)、妥协和“双重损失”(旨在谈判对立的文化观念和期望以获得象征资本的语言)。这是必要的,因为主流文化保持着与粉丝文化相对立的一贯态度。
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引用次数: 1
Lost spectacle: Media consumption by Kashmiri youth in the absence of cinema halls 失落的奇观:克什米尔青年在没有电影院的情况下的媒体消费
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1386/safm_00025_1
Gowhar Farooq
Hardline militants forced the cinema halls in Kashmir into closure in 1989. As heavy militarization ensued, several spaces, including cinema halls, were transformed into structures where people, especially young men, were detained and tortured by soldiers and militia. The generations born after the 1980s, therefore, grew up in a cinema-less, militarized world. In the absence of functional cinema halls, they, for years, relied on the state broadcaster for movies and media. Later – although under tremendous threat from extremists – a network of local cable TV operators, who functioned without licences, provided some succour. They were followed by pirate video-cassette and compact-disk parlours that provided people with a means to stay connected to movie culture. And, while the scene changed with the arrival of satellite TV, computers and later the internet, which connected the youth of the region to the larger global media culture, the absence of cinema persists. This article aims to explore how youth, born after the 1980s, associate with cinema halls of Kashmir and what the loss of the cinema viewing culture means to them. To this end, I intend to look into cinema culture before the 1990s and the politics around the closure of cinema halls. The article will also put into perspective the arrival of satellite TV and the circulation of pirated video cassettes, compact disks and videos of the funerals of rebels that were filmed and circulated by rental shops. These practices and processes, which shaped the childhood and youth of several generations in Kashmir, offer insights into the media consumption and the role the state and its apparatuses have in shaping the youth in a conflict-ridden and militarized region of the Global South.
1989年,强硬派武装分子迫使克什米尔的电影院关闭。随着严重的军事化,包括电影院在内的几个空间被改造成人们,特别是年轻人被士兵和民兵拘留和折磨的地方。因此,上世纪80年代以后出生的人成长在一个没有电影的军事化世界。由于缺乏功能齐全的电影院,他们多年来一直依赖国家广播公司播放电影和媒体。后来——尽管受到极端分子的巨大威胁——一个没有牌照的地方有线电视运营商网络提供了一些援助。紧随其后的是盗版录像带和光盘店,它们为人们提供了与电影文化保持联系的途径。随着卫星电视、电脑和后来的互联网的出现,情况发生了变化,互联网将该地区的年轻人与更大的全球媒体文化联系起来,但电影的缺失仍然存在。本文旨在探讨80后的年轻人如何与克什米尔的电影院联系在一起,以及电影观影文化的丧失对他们意味着什么。为此,我打算研究90年代以前的电影文化和围绕电影院关闭的政治。这篇文章还将对卫星电视的到来和盗版录像带、光盘以及由租赁店拍摄和传播的叛军葬礼视频的流通进行透视。这些做法和过程塑造了克什米尔几代人的童年和青年时代,为我们提供了洞察媒体消费以及国家及其机器在塑造全球南方这个充满冲突和军事化地区的年轻人方面所起的作用的机会。
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引用次数: 2
‘This sperm hits the bullseye’: Bollywood, youth and male (im)potency as a neoliberal game “这个精子击中了靶心”:宝莱坞、青年和男性(非)潜能作为新自由主义的游戏
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1386/safm_00020_1
Baidurya Chakrabarti
This article, by closely examining the trajectory of the upcoming Bollywood star Ayushmann Khurrana, tries to unravel the constitutive fantasies that provide a significant degree of coherence to his star-image. Through a close textual reading, the article aligns these fantasies with the diurnal realities of neoliberal India. In these fantasies, the male protagonist is found to be (a) the privileged embodiment of a surplus/lack that comes to signify the ‘thing’ called the modern, but (b) the man and his sociality is not prepared yet to accept this ‘thing’, thus triggering comedy; it is only in romantic conjugation with (c) a working woman can this excess charge of the modern be resolved within the narratives. Using psychoanalytic insights, the article unpacks these fantasies as ones involving both a crisis and an ultimately infantile reaction to it.
这篇文章,通过仔细研究即将到来的宝莱坞明星阿尤斯曼·库拉纳的轨迹,试图解开构成幻想,这些幻想为他的明星形象提供了很大程度的连贯性。通过仔细阅读文本,文章将这些幻想与新自由主义印度的日常现实联系起来。在这些幻想中,男主角被发现是(a)过剩/匮乏的特权体现,象征着被称为现代的“东西”,但(b)男人和他的社会还没有准备好接受这种“东西”,从而引发喜剧;只有在与(c)职业妇女的浪漫结合中,这种过度的现代负担才能在叙事中得到解决。这篇文章运用精神分析的见解,将这些幻想拆解为既涉及危机,又涉及对危机的最终幼稚反应。
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Coaching centre as camp: Structures of feeling in popular representations of India’s coaching industry 作为营地的教练中心:印度教练行业流行代表中的情感结构
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1386/safm_00022_1
I. Salovaara
In the last two decades, critical representations of the Indian education system have gained prominence in Hindi-language popular media. Centring on concerns about both pedagogy and inequality, these media texts have recently begun to incorporate fictionalized depictions of schooling beyond school – the vast ‘shadow education’ system that prepares students for school tests and competitive examinations in engineering, medical, civil service and other primarily technical and professional fields. This article explores the political significance of ambivalences that inhere within and between representations of the coaching industry. These ambivalences produce a narrative of enclosure in which upper-caste middle classes endure persecution while simultaneously engaging in forms of disciplinary self-fashioning in service to the nation. These ‘structures of feeling’ resonate with social theories of the camp, reconsidered from the Indian context.
在过去的二十年里,对印度教育体系的批判性表述在印地语流行媒体上获得了突出地位。这些媒体文本以对教育学和不平等的担忧为中心,最近开始加入对校外学校教育的虚构描述——这是一个庞大的“影子教育”系统,为学生在工程、医学、公务员和其他主要技术和专业领域的学校考试和竞争性考试做准备。本文探讨了教练行业内部和之间存在的矛盾心理的政治意义。这些矛盾心理产生了一种封闭的叙事,在这种叙事中,上层种姓的中产阶级忍受着迫害,同时也在为国家服务而进行纪律性的自我塑造。这些“感觉结构”与该阵营的社会理论产生了共鸣,这些理论是从印度的背景下重新考虑的。
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Rebels for every cause: Mythologies of youth in contemporary India 各种原因的反叛:当代印度青年的神话
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1386/safm_00021_1
A. Nandakumar
The processes of globalization and liberalization currently underway in most parts of the world address young people as agential subjects, even as a primordial fear of the raw, uncontained, chaotic force symbolized by unrestrained youth persists. In such a context, I argue that youth becomes an aspirational subject position signifying different things to various social actors. Drawing upon Roland Barthes’ notion of ‘myth’ as a sign in a second-order semiotic system (Mythologies, 1993), I examine various popular cultural texts of the mid-2000s such as the popular Hindi film Rang De Basanti (‘Paint me the colour of spring’, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra 2006), as well as select advertisements, music videos and public service campaigns in order to unravel the ‘mythologies’ converging in the figure of youth in contemporary India.
目前在世界大多数地区正在进行的全球化和自由化进程把年轻人当作能动的主体,尽管对以不受约束的青年为象征的原始的、不受控制的、混乱的力量的原始恐惧仍然存在。在这样的背景下,我认为青年成为一个有抱负的主体位置,对不同的社会行动者意味着不同的东西。根据罗兰·巴特(Roland Barthes)的“神话”概念作为二级符号学系统中的符号(Mythologies, 1993),我研究了2000年代中期的各种流行文化文本,如流行的印度电影《Rang De Basanti》(“给我画上春天的颜色”,Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra 2006),以及精选的广告、音乐视频和公共服务活动,以解开“神话”在当代印度青年形象中的融合。
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Songs from India and Zanzibar: Documenting the Gulf in migration 来自印度和桑给巴尔的歌曲:记录移民中的海湾
Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/safm_00008_1
Dale Hudson
Abstract With a primarily South Asian population, including both middle-class families and 'bachelors', the Gulf states unsettle assumptions about the Middle East and South Asia developed from western area studies. This article examines three documentaries ‐ From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, Champ of the Camp and Sounds of the Sea ‐ that layer visual images of the Gulf with songs from India and Zanzibar. They document the inequities and the ways in which vulnerable populations navigate them to find dignity in a world that often dismisses them as victims (e.g., exploited migrants, oppressed women) or uses them to legitimize segregation in allegedly overcrowded cities. They reconfigure documentary practice to allow subjects to speak indirectly, protecting them from possible retaliation or stigma. By documenting through nonwestern popular songs, these films contribute to a recovery of connections between South Asia, the Gulf and East Africa that were interrupted by British colonialism and US imperialism.
摘要海湾国家主要是南亚人口,包括中产阶级家庭和“单身汉”,这让西方地区研究中对中东和南亚的假设感到不安。本文考察了三部纪录片——《从海湾到海湾再到海湾》、《营地的冠军》和《海洋之声》——它们将海湾的视觉图像与印度和桑给巴尔的歌曲叠加在一起。它们记录了不平等现象,以及弱势群体如何引导他们在一个经常将他们视为受害者(例如受剥削的移民、受压迫的妇女)或利用他们在据称拥挤的城市中使种族隔离合法化的世界中找到尊严。他们重新配置纪录片实践,允许受试者间接发言,保护他们免受可能的报复或污名化。通过记录非西方流行歌曲,这些电影有助于恢复被英国殖民主义和美帝国主义打断的南亚、海湾和东非之间的联系。
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Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/safm_00014_5
Richard E. Norman, Race Filmmaking
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