A History of India's North-East Cinema : Deconstructing the Stereotypes / Parthajit Baruah.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baruah, Parthajit, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--India.

Motion picture industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

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Summary:

A History of India's North-East Cinema: Deconstructing the Stereotypes, the first book on the history of cinema in this region, depicts the journey from the first Assamese film, Joymoti (1935), to the present time. This book addresses the peripheral status and identity crisis of North-Eastern people in mainland India, a region that comprises eight states, and examines the role of Bollywood in the construction and misrepresentation of this region in popular Hindi cinema. The book is divided into three parts. Part I looks at how the people of the North-East are constructed as 'foreigners' or 'outsiders' by mainland Indians, due to their physical facial features. Part II discusses the socio-political and cultural shifts in the region of Assam, the issue of Assamese identity which led to the Assam Movement and the upsurge of the insurgent group United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA). It provides a nuanced discussion on the background and foreground of the first and second Assamese films, Joymoti (1935) and Indramalati (1939). Part III traces the journey of cinema in the seven other North-Eastern states-Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura and Sikkim, narrating the regions' socio-political phenomena and the unique cultural discourses. For instance, one of the chapters examines the turbulent period beginning with the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) and its impact on the growth of cinema in the region. The book contains a rare collection of film posters, newspaper advertisements, photographs, letters and other documents, representing both the public and private domain of film-making.

Contents:

List of illustrations List of abbreviations Overview Prologue Part I Introduction: North-East Cinema: Not a Monolithic Entity 1. Representation of North-East in Bollywood: Myth and Reality 2. North-East Cinema: Beyond Bollywood Part II 3. Society, Culture and Cinema in Assam 4. Father of North-East Cinema: Jyotiprasad Agarwala 5. Birth of Joymoti: The Backstory 6. Joymoti: The First Feature Film from the North-East 7. Indramalati: A Romantic Saga with Patriotic Undertones 8. Assamese Cinema: From Regional to Epic Rise 9. The Diverse Cultural Mosaic of Assam in Films 10. Pramathesh Chandra Barua: A Filmmaker with a National Context Part III 11. AFSPA and Cinema of Manipur 12. Aribam Syam Sharma: The Pabung of New Manipuri Cinema 13. Voices from the Blue Hills: Cinema of Meghalaya 14. The Land of Rising Sun: The Cinema of Arunachal Pradesh 15. The Song Bird of the East: Cinema of Mizoram 16. Cinema of the Naga Hills 17. Search for Identity: The Cinema of Tripura 18. The Fall of a Tiny Himalayan Kingdom: The Cinema of Sikkim Acknowledgements Photographs Bibliography Index

ISBN:

9798765127674

OCLC:

1472216942