Language Without Borders by Vaneeta Palecanda
Examines how code-switching, code mixing, and accents reveal class relations embedded in Hindi cinema.
Language Without Borders is the first book-length exploration of code-switching, code mixing, and accents in Hindi cinema. Considering political shifts—from socialism to free-market liberalization—and their manifestations across several decades of Hindi cinema, the book examines the visual and aural representations of English/Englishness in popular films, from Shree 420 to English Vinglish, calling attention to social-class relations embedded therein. Informed by multidisciplinary studies on spectatorship, gender relations, parody, globalization, and language and media relations, the book examines code-switching and code mixing to trace the processes by which English is naturalized in India. Significantly, Indian English accents in cinema reveal an unabashed class consciousness, creating the space for an uncritical acceptance of a staged "Indianness" for domestic and overseas audiences. Joining a broad range of scholarly inquiries into the machination of language systems, the book lays bare the harsh realities of social-class relations.
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Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination
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Wastelands and Wonderlands
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From Doors to Screens
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The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema
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Overhearing Film Music
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On Shoreless Sea
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Haunting the World
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Celluloid Babel
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Happiness and Tears, After Cavell
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Eccentric Laughter
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Brief Encounters
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Déjà Viewed
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Plastic Time
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Visions in the Frame
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Hitchcock and Hospitality
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The Celluloid Atlantic
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Cavell on Film
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Torturous Etiquettes
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The Slapstick Camera
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Action, Action, Action
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Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East
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Seeing Symphonically
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Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives
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Writ on Water
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Curtains of Light
Vaneeta Palecanda is a retired Associate Professor of English who taught at the College of Saint Rose.
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| ISBN 13 | 9798855808193 |
| Title | Language Without Borders |
| Author | Vaneeta Palecanda |
| Series | Suny Series Horizons Of Cinema |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2026-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 228 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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