Chinaman, Not Hindustani: Stereotypes and Solidarity in a Hong Kong Film on India

Srinivas, SV (2016) Chinaman, Not Hindustani: Stereotypes and Solidarity in a Hong Kong Film on India. [Book Chapter]

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Abstract

This chapter presents a counterintuitive analysis of Himalaya Singh (2005), a film by Hong Kong director Wai Ka-Fai that is built upon the Orientalist stereotypes of India and is criticised by Indian scholars as humiliating and distasteful. By highlighting inter-Asian solidarities, Srinivas shows that the fusion of Hong Kong martial arts with Bollywood music and dance unites the twin paragons of global cinema and permits a new reading of the films as a performative critique of the Orientalising gaze. © 2016, The Author(s).

Item Type:	Book Chapter
Publication:	Global Cinema
Publisher:	Springer
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Springer.
Keywords:	Bengali Speaker; Cultural Commodity; Hindi Language; Indian Cinema; Popular Culture
Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Centre for Society and Policy (formerly: Centre for Contemporary Studies)
Date Deposited:	31 Jan 2023 06:53
Last Modified:	31 Jan 2023 06:53
URI:	https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/79607

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