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New Indian cinema in post-independence India : the cultural work of Shyam Benegal's films / Anurada Dingwaney Needham.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.B467 N44 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney, 1951-
- Series:
- Intersections (London, England) ; 8.
- Intersections: colonial and postcolonial histories ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Benegal, Shyam, 1934-2024--Criticism and interpretation.
- Benegal, Shyam.
- Benegal, Shyam, 1934-2024.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The nation as its women. "The places occupied by women": gender, subalternity, and the (nation-)state in Ankur and Nishant
- "Performing women": the Nachne-Ganewalis" of Bhumika; Mandi; and Sardari Begum
- The nation's alternative and self-authorized biographies. Fictional engagements with (national) history: Junoon, Mammo, and Trikal
- A pantheon of national heroes: Nehru, the making of the Mahatma, and Bose: the forgotten hero
- The nation and its ideologies of development. "Making these cause films": cinematic renditions of the developmental agendas of the (nation-)state.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0415693977
- 9780415693974
- OCLC:
- 731925231
- Publisher Number:
- 99954842518
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