Download or read book Movies, Masculinity, and Modernity written by Steve Derne and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2000-03-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that films help Indian men handle their ambivalences about modernity by rooting their sense of "Indianness" in women's acceptance of traditional food habits, clothing, and gender subordination.