Max's greatest strength is its catalog of prestige original shows, includingBarry,Big Little Lies,Chernobyl, Curb Your Enthusiasm,Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,Sex and the City,Silicon Valley,Six Feet Under,Succession,The Sopranos,The Wire, andWestworld. The service acquired the streaming righ...
Resistance to western cultural imperialism can also be evidenced in the fact that Hollywood films still garner only a 14% market share in India (Bamzai Citation2022) and this is owed in no small measure to the practice of releasing dubbed versions of blockbuster Hollywood films in Hindi, Tamil...
Experts in preventive medicine and public health have long-since recognized that health is more than the absence of disease, and that each person in the ‘waiting room’ and beyond manifests the social/political/economic ecosystems that are part of their total lived experience. The term planetary...
In addition, the culture of academe has become even more infused with notions of hierarchy, characterized by an obsessive focus on institutional prestige and on published rankings of universities and their respective academic units. Within this milieu, it’s more common to see younger scholars enter...
currency regime will eventually replace the unipolar one,” the economist, dubbed ‘Doctor Doom’ by Wall Street for his tendency toward grim predictions, stated. Sceptics note that the yuan cannot become a true reserve currency unless Beijing lifts capital controls, accepts permanent current account...
Audrey Hepburn didn’t sing her own songs (they were dubbed later by Marni Nixon, much to Hepburn’s chagrin), and it was quite the scandal when the movie came out; it’s the reason Hepburn herself wasn’t nominated for Best Actress. That’s a travesty, of course, because Hepburn is...
What you see here is not the extent of the “South” industries’ popular vigor. “Neo-masala,” as I have dubbed it — which is to say, Hindi-language (Bollywood) films either remade from or heavily inspired by Tamil or Telugu-language (South) movies, in pursuit of an old-fashioned ...