South Asian filmscapes : transregional encounters / edited by Elora Halim Chowdhury, Esha Niyogi De.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chowdhury, Elora Halim, editor.

De, Esha Niyogi, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--South Asia--History--20th century--Congresses.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--South Asia--History--21st century--Congresses.

Motion picture industry--South Asia--History--20th century--Congresses.

Motion picture industry.

Motion picture industry--South Asia--History--21st century--Congresses.

National characteristics in motion pictures--Congresses.

National characteristics in motion pictures.

History.

South Asia.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I Nations and Regional Margins

1 National Identity and Cinematic Representation: Independent Films in Bangladesh p. 25 / Fahmidul Haq

2 Female Friendship and Forbidden Desire: Two Films from 1960s Pakistan p. 43 / Kamran Asdar Ali

3 Bringing Back Sikhs after the 1984 Pogrom: The Politics of Picturization in Hindi Cinema p. 60 / Amit Ranjan

4 Silencing Films from the Chittagong Hill Tracts: Indigenous Cinema's Challenge to the Imagined Cultural Homogeneity of Bangladesh p. 77 / Glen Hill and Kabita Chakma

5 Pakistan, History, and Sleep: Hassan Tariq, a Progressive Patriarch, and Neend p. 97 / Nasreen Rehman

Part II Transregional Crossings

6 The Public in the Cities: Detouring through Cinemas of Bombay, Calcutta, and Lahore (1920S-1930S) p. 119 / Madhuja Mukherjee

7 Cross-Wing Filmmaking: East Pakistani Urdu Films and Their Traces in the Bangladesh Film Archive p. 140 / Lotte Hoek

8 Action Heroines and Regional Gifts: Authorship Crossing Pakistan p. 160 / Esha Niyogi De

9 Realism and Region in South Indian Cinemas, 1947-1977 p. 180 / Hariprasad Athanickal

10 "This Is London, Not Pakistan!": Articulations OF the Diaspora in Pakistani Punjabi Film p. 197 / Gwendolyn S. Kirk

11 The Birth OF a Cinema in Post-9/11 Pakistan p. 216 / Zebunnisa Hamid

Part III Fractured Geographies, South Connectivities

12 Zahir Raihan's Stop Genocide (1971): A Dialectical Cinematic Message to the World p. 233 / Fahmida Akhter

13 Gender, War, and Resistance: The Case of Kashmir p. 250 / Alka Kurian

14 Cinema That Raises a Critical Consciousness: The Films of Alamgir Kabir p. 266 / Naadir Junaid

15 Ethical Encounters: Friendship and Healing in Contemporary Films about the Bangladesh Liberation War p. 283 / Elora Halim Chowdhury.

Notes:

"This volume, the inaugural publication of the South Asian Regional Media Scholars Network (SARMSNet)" --Text.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 04, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: South Asian filmscapes

ISBN:

9780295747866

0295747862

Publisher Number:

40030284639

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