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  “Barack OBollywood”: Afro-Asian Connections on the Viral Video Trail

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  Shalini Shankar Northwestern University

  April 30, 2008

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  “Barack OBollywood”: Afro-Asian Connections on the Viral Video Trail Youtube viral video United ... States race President politics masculinity elections CamPain 2008 Bollywood Asian American Curator's ... compliment and disparage. Some question Obama’s authenticity: “But he is not asian! he has no asian blood in ...
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  Hmong Bollywood

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  Jigna Desai University of Minnesota

  April 18, 2008

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  Hmong Bollywood diaspora South Asian Bollywood Hmong immigration adaptation dubbing ... transnationalism Curator's Note Is it possible to be a diaspora without a “homeland” cinema or media? What ... burdens,” and like other Asian Americans as “perpetually foreign.” As Louisa Schein has written, far from ...
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  Television and Reality: The Politics of Representation in Celebrity Big Brother, U.K.

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  Shanti Kumar University of Texas at Austin

  April 17, 2007

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  Television and Reality: The Politics of Representation in Celebrity Big Brother, U.K. South Asian ...
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  Autism, Automaton, Alibi

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  Samir Dayal Bentley University

  April 06, 2011

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  Autism, Automaton, Alibi autism in the media South Asians Bollywood South Asian films India ...
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  Kumaari

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  Arvind Rajagopal New York University

  February 08, 2007

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  Kumaari South Asian Bollywood transnationalism Tamil Curator's Note A Dutch tulip field is ...
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  Yaari, men in drag, and gays: tracing the changing dynamics of queer male sexuality in popular Hindi cinema

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  Sreya Mitra University of Wisconsin, Madison

  April 24, 2008

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  Hindi cinema South Asian sexuality queerness Page 3 masculinity Life in a…Metro Bollywood Curator's ...
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  Is Bollywood Still Producing Musicals? (Has It Ever?)

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  Nilanjana Bhattacharjya Arizona State University

  June 13, 2012

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  Is Bollywood Still Producing Musicals? (Has It Ever?) Bollywood musicals song sequences Curator's Note The Bollywood film industry is often distinguished by its having produced films that have almost always been "musicals" since the 1930s. ...