RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Origins and Evolution of Indian Cinema: A Caleidoscopic Vision of India T2 Orígenes y evolución del cine indio: una visión caleidoscóica de India A1 Escobedo de Tapia, Carmen K1 cine indio K1 estudios poscoloniales K1 estudios culturales K1 Bollywood K1 estudios sobre cine AB The Western image of India has traditionally been based on the attraction of stereotypes likethe exotic, the mystical or the spiritual; if this imaginative construct is evident in literature,with examples like Paul Scott’s The Jewel in The Crown and E.M. Forster’s A Passage toIndia. I suggest that this recreation could also be applicable to cinema through stereotypi-cal visions that originally appear in films about India. In this article I aim to explain theevolution of Indian cinema as a genre of its own, using postcolonial concepts like ‘mimicry’,‘hybridity’ or ‘liminality’ discussed by H.K. Bhabha in The Location of Culture (1994), andthrough the threefold perspective developed by Priyamvada Gopal in The Indian EnglishNovel: Nation, History and Narration (2009). PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna SN e-2530-8335 YR 2021 FD 2021 LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/25521 UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/25521 LA en DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna RD 29-mar-2024