Bengali cinema : 'an other nation' / Sharmistha Gooptu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gooptu, Sharmistha, author.

Series:

Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 34.

Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--India--Bengal.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--India--West Bengal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2011.

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Covering the years spanning cinema's emergence as a popular form in Bengal in the first half of the twentieth century, this book examines the main genres and trends produced by this cinema, and leads up to Bengali cinema's last phase of transition in the 1980s. Arguing that Bengali cinema has been a key economic and social institution, the author highlights that the Bengali filmic imaginary existed over and above the imaginary of the Indian nation.This book argues that a definitive history of Bengali cinema presents an alternative understanding to the currently influential notion of the Hindi

Contents:

Introduction : the early years

The idea of a 'Bengali' cinema

Bengal and a 'national' cinema : New Theatres Ltd

The transition to a 'regional' cinema

Bengali love stories : Uttam-Suchitra and the golden era of Bengali cinema

Common man's comedy : the Bhanu factor

Satyajit Ray and the Bengali cinema

Changing context, new texts : Bengali cinema and another Bengaliness

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-91216-9

1-136-91217-7

1-283-03865-X

9786613038654

0-203-84334-7

9780203843345

OCLC:

764571141