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Mourning the nation : Indian cinema in the wake of Partition / Bhaskar Sarkar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sarkar, Bhaskar, 1963-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--India.
- Motion pictures.
- India--In motion pictures.
- India.
- India--History--Partition, 1947.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A work of film studies that traces how the traumatic Partition of India and Pakistan has been represented (or not represented) in Indian cinema from 1947 to the present.
- Contents:
- Introduction : national cinema's hermeneutic of mourning
- Cinema's project of nationhood
- Runes of laceration
- Bengali cinema : a spectral subnationality
- Dispersed nodes of articulation
- Ghatak, melodrama, and the restitution of experience
- Tamas and the limits of representation
- Mourning (un)limited
- Coda : the critical enchantment of mourning.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-362) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613065346
- 9781283065344
- 1283065347
- 9780822392217
- 0822392216
- OCLC:
- 841915357
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