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A study of the profound preoccupation with time, youth and the relationship between generations in contemporary popular Indian media culture, this book suggests that the politics of time is a manifestation of the radicalised war between labour and capital inherent in India's shift to neoliberalism since the 1990s

Annotation Since the 1980s, a peculiar paradox has evolved in American film. Hollywood's children have grown up, and the adults are looking and behaving more and more like children. In popular films such as Harry Potter, Toy Story, Pocahantas, Home Alone, and Jumanji, it is the children who are clever, savvy, and self-sufficient while the adults are often portrayed as bumbling and ineffective. Is this transformation of children into "little adults" an invention of Hollywood or a product of changing cultural definitions more broadly? In Coining for Capital, Jyostna Kapur explores the evolution of the concept of childhood from its portrayal in the eighteenth century as a pure, innocent, and idyllic state-the opposite of adulthood-to its expression today as a mere variation of adulthood, complete with characteristics of sophistication, temptation, and corruption. Kapur argues that this change in definition is not a media effect, but rather a structural feature of a deeply consumer-driven society. Providing a new and timely perspective on the current widespread alarm over the loss of childhood, Coining for Capital concludes that our present moment is in fact one of hope and despair. As children are fortunately shedding false definitions of proscribed innocence both in film and in life, they must now also learn to navigate a deeply inequitable, antagonistic, and consumer-driven society of which they are both a part and a target

Coinciding with the Indian government's initiation ofneo-liberal economic "reforms" in 1991 a new phenomenon started to appear in popular Hindi cinema: The actual city ofBombay disappeared as a location giving way to an entirely fictitious Bombay. This paper explains the connections between the textual disappearance of Bombay and the contemporary integration of India into global capital; the political economy of the changing audience and revenues for Hindi cinema and its textual representations of public and private space; andfinally the contradictory ways in which capitalism both integrates the globe andfragments it. Our analysis is located in recent theoretical attempts to understand the changing nature of urban spaces in contemporary capitalism, the emergence of a transnational bourgeoisie, and draws attention to the continuing relevance ofthe term imperialism in analyzing global capital.

Introduction -- Hollywood and global dominance. "For a better deal, harass your governor!" : neoliberalism and Hollywood / Toby Miller and Richard Maxwell -- A legacy of neoliberalism : patterns in media conglomeration / Eileen R. Meehan -- 21st century neoliberal man / Deborah Tudor -- Latin America. Cuban cinema : a case of accelerated underdevelopment / Michael Chanan -- Politics and privatization in Peruvian cinema : Grupo Chaski's aesthetics of survival / Sophia A. McClennen -- Form, politics and culture : a case study of the take, the revolution will not be televised and listen to Venezuela / Mike Wayne & Deirdre O'Neill -- Asia. Market socialism and its discontent : Jia Zhangke's cinematic narrative of China's transition in the age of global capital / Xudong Zhang -- "Leitmotif" : state, market, and postsocialist film industry under neoliberal globalization / Ying Xiao -- From exploitation to playful exploits : the rise of collectives and the redefinition of labor, life, and representation in neoliberal Japan / Sharon Hayashi -- The underdevelopment of development : neoliberalism and the crisis of bourgeois individualism / Jyotsna Kapur -- Fragments of labor : neoliberal attitudes and architectures in contemporary South Korean cinema / Keith B. Wagner -- Mainlandization and neoliberalism with post-colonial and Chinese characteristics : challenges for the Hong Kong film industry / Mirana M. Szeto and Yun-chung Chen -- -- Neoliberalism and authoritarianism in Singaporean cinema : a case study of Perth / Jenna Ng -- Gambling on life and death : neoliberal rationality and the films of Jeffrey Jeturian, Bliss Cua Lim -- Africa and Europe. Nollywood in Lagos, Lagos in Nollywood films / Jonathan Haynes -- French cinema : counter-model, cultural exception, resistances / Martin O'Shaughnessy