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Repetition with a Difference: A Response to Arjun Appadurai

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2019

Ranjani Mazumdar
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Abstract

This is a response to Arjun Appadurai’s article “The Ready-Made Pleasures of Déjà Vu: Repeat Viewing of Bollywood Films.”1 Repetition as a concept is discussed here in relation to Deleuze, genre, remakes of older films, tradition, cultural regimentation, and individual desire.

Keywords

Bollywoodrepetitiondifferencegenreremakeformuladesire
Type
Responses to Appadurai Paradigm Piece (Issue 6.1)
Information
Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , September 2019 , pp. 371 - 376
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press, 2019 

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