Gopinath writes about post 9/11 in the US and the rise of Bollywood type cinema. She discusses how the increase in surveillance of South Asian communities coincides with the rise of Bollywood, which she calls a “representational excess and material violence” (Gopinath, 157). This representational form perpetuates the disappearance of queer female subjectivities, maintaining heterosexualization of female characters and generating commodities of consumption of South Asian culture and South Asians. All the while South Asian men are being detained and questioned and labeled terrorist. It is interesting to consider how both these forms act together as a type of hyper-surveillance, policing bodies and behaviors.  Reading this article reminded me of a discussion in another class from last week. We were talking about how the increase in movies and shows that portray a slave narrative in the US coincides with the rise and rapid expansion of the PIC. Obviously there are huge differences between these two comparisons from Gopinath and my other class. But a similarity is how certain (sometimes historicized) subjectivities are being produced that incur sympathy, empathy, or maybe even humor while another politicized identity is being produced and reproduced in the US- that of the terrorist or the criminal, who is subsequently denied any such response from the public. Are those parallelisms functioning as a form of US nationalism? Gopinath goes on to look at some films that have reproduced certain heteronormative US nationalist narratives depicting South Asian characters. She then discusses Parminder Sekhon’s photography and how she works to bring visibility to queer female desire and subjectivity. Puar’s article looked at the torture and the depictions and discourse surrounding the torture of the prisoners of Abu Ghraib. Specifically she calls to question why was ‘disgusting’ was used over and over when describing these images and events when photos of body parts and bomb damage doesn’t cause similar reactions. The depictions of gay sex acts in these photos of torture by American soldiers causes major anxiety over calling into question the US as an authority of morality and ethics.