Lahore Cinema : Between Realism and Fable / Iftikhar Dadi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dadi, Iftikhar, author.

Contributor:

Sivaramakrishnan, K., editor.

Yang, Anand A., editor.

Kaimal, Padma, editor.

The TOME initiative and generous support from Cornell University, Funder.

Series:

Global South Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Urdu-speaking countries.

Motion pictures--Pakistan--Lahore--History--20th century.

Motion pictures--Pakistan--History--20th century.

Pakistan--Lahore.

Pakistan.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of Washington Press 2022

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Dadi Iftikhar : Iftikhar Dadi is professor of history of art at Cornell University. He is the author of Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia (University of North Carolina Press, 2010); and coeditor of Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2012).Sivaramakrishnan K. : Kalyanakrishnan "Shivi" Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, professor of anthropology, professor of forestry and environmental studies, and codirector of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.Yang Anand A. : Anand A. Yang is professor of international studies and history at the University of Washington. He is coeditor of Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History (Hawai'i, 2005), coeditor of Thirteen Months in China: A Subaltern Indian and the Colonial World (Oxford, 2017), and author of Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia (California, 2021).Kaimal Padma : Padma Kaimal is Batza Professor of Art and Art History at Colgate University. She is the author of Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (Association for Asian Studies, 2013) and Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space (Washington, 2021).Iftikhar Dadi is John H. Burris Professor in History of Art at Cornell University. He is author of Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia and coeditor of Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space.

Summary:

"The post-Partition cinema produced between 1956 and 1969-the long '60s-in Lahore, Pakistan, drew promiscuously from Hindu mythology, Bengali performance traditions, Islamicate legends, Sufi conceptions of the self, Punjabi and Sindhi oral narratives, Parsi theater, Urdu lyric poetry, historical and social realism, Hollywood musicals, the psychological and sensorial stimulus of modernity, and more. Consideration of this rich field of influence offers insights into not only the decade that led to the overthrow of the Ayub Khan government, followed in 1971 by the loss of Bangladesh, but also into cultural affiliation in the fraught South Asian present, when frameworks of multiplicity and plurality are in jeopardy. Urdu-language films from Lahore made during this period reveal ways that cinematic form and narrative intersect with cultural memory and with the challenges of their time, characterized by trauma in the aftermath of Partition in 1947, a constricted socio-political horizon, and accelerating modernity. In Lahore Cinema Iftikhar Dadi probes the role of language, rhetoric, and lyric in the making of meaning, and the relevance of the Urdu cultural universe to the genesis of Bombay filmmaking. He argues that commercial cinema in South Asia is among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization. It has provided affective and imaginative resources for its audiences to navigate an accelerating modernity and a fraught politics by anchoring social change across the terrain of deeper cultural imaginaries. And it has played an influential progressive role during the mid-twentieth century, by constituting publics beyond existing social divides, in forging a shared and expanded experience of modernity that extends beyond regional, ethnic, and sectarian affiliations, and in affectively challenging the selective amnesia of nation-state ideologies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The Lahore effect

Between neorealism and humanism: Jago Hua Savera

Lyric romanticism: Khurshid Anwar's Music and films

Cinema and politics: Khalil Qaiser and Riaz Shahid

The Zinda Bhaag Assemblage: reflexivity and form.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-295-75080-4

OCLC:

1337409770