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Sunera Thobani - Shah Rukh Khan, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

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Shah Rukh Khan

Masculinity, Religion and Global Stardom

Av Sunera Thobani

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Shah Rukh Khan’s gradual ascent from industry outsider to one of the world’s most influential film stars has unfolded against the changing social and political landscape of contemporary India.Through close readings of key films including Darr (1993), Swades (2004), Om Shanti Om (2007), My Name Is Khan (2010) and Dunki (2023), Sunera Thobani explores the distinctive “desirable masculinity” Khan brings to the screen and how it departs from earlier models of Hindi film stardom, particularly Amitabh Bachchan’s “angry young man”.Placing Khan’s Indian-Muslim identity at the centre of the discussion, she examines his daring role choices and his ability to move between dominant and dissenting ideas of gender, religion, and nationhood. She also considers his remarkable popularity across the globe, particularly in South East Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, showing how the tensions between majority and minority, nation and diaspora, and tradition and modernity have shaped his enduring global appeal.
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Sunera Thobani is Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of Contesting Islam, Constructing Race and Sexuality: The Inordinate Desire of the West (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), and Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada (2007). She is editor of The Deadly Intersections of COVID-19: Race, States, Inequalities and Global Society (2022) and co-editor of States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century (2010).

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Sunera Thobani’s meticulously researched study of Shah Rukh Khan offers a fresh, twin perspective on religion and masculinity in more than three decades of SRK's stellar career. Thobani effortlessly combines incisive socio-political analysis with a nuanced understanding of his unfailing emotional and erotic appeal. A must read for anyone interested in the enduring power, mystique, and appeal of one of global cinema’s most captivating stars.

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