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Cinema and the Indian National Emergency : Histories and Afterlives.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Tauris world cinema series.
- World cinema
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--India--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture industry--India--History--20th century.
- Motion picture industry.
- Motion pictures--Political aspects--India.
- India--Politics and government--20th century.
- India.
- Genre:
- Film criticism.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Cinema and the Indian National Emergency examines the strained relationship between the state and the Indian film industry during this period of political upheaval. Each of the essays, written from a broad range of critical perspectives, analyse controversial films such as Aandhi (1975), Nasbandi (1978), and Kissa Kursi Ka (1977), which were all subject to state censorship. It considers the cinematic representations and afterlives, and the possible modes of archiving and remembering the cinema of the Indian Emergency"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Editors and contributors
- Editors
- Contributors
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- ForewordIndia, a global laboratory of democracy in and through film
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The fear of cinema
- Cinema and the Abbas judgement
- Who is a filmmaker?-1: Circa 1975
- Challenges to the 'director system'
- The fear of noise
- Chapter 2: Not by Emergency alone: An unending saga of political repression and content control
- The phenomenon
- State surveillance of films before Emergency
- Political narrative brought to fore
- Post-Emergency camouflage
- A medium under siege
- Chapter 3: State: A patron and a tyrant: Indian film society movement in 'Emergency' times
- A photograph by way of a prologue
- Movement: Film society, Emergency and echoes of time
- Film society, a formal, legal entity and troubling ramifications
- Screen Unit, a personal experiential example
- Films: Production, distribution and exhibition, an act of resistance
- Screen Unit's festival and symposium: Sociopolitical cinema, 1980
- Democratic despotism: A paradoxical possibility
- Emergence of film societies: A global centenary (1920-2020)
- The Indian scenario
- Patronage
- GoI's grant-in-aid to the FFSI
- Ambiguities of patronage: Films, filmmakers and fascism
- Emergency and the media
- 1970s and film societies in India
- Post-Emergency 1980s and the exposure of film society movement
- Chapter 4: The Emergency, FFC/NFDC and New Cinema in India (1970s)
- The Internal Emergency, Media and Censorship (1975)
- Emergency, New Cinema and the FFC/NFDC
- How precisely did the Emergency affect the New Indian Cinema and FFC?
- The Seventy-Ninth Report on the FFC of the CPU (1975-6): An Emergency Document
- FFC's performance during Emergency.
- National Film Development Corporation
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 5: Between a logo and a memo: State-sponsored documentary films during the Emergency
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- Chapter 6: Memories and mixed-media: The event and the archive
- Archives and the Emergency
- Public memory and the Emergency
- Chapter 7: 'A unique Indian revolution': S. Sukhdev, the Films Division and the Emergency
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- Chapter 8: India's National Emergency and its media afterlife
- The Emergency online
- The archive effect and memory
- Political memory in The Blind Rabbit
- Chapter 9: In defence of a not-so-political cinema
- Prologue
- The context
- The text
- Sequences, interiority
- Epilogue
- Chapter 10: From 'dictatorship' to dictatorship: The dynamics of alien and 'legitimized' authoritarianism in 1980s popular Hindi films
- Chapter 11: The long 1970s: Anjan Dutt as archive, some interfaces
- The 1970s
- Anjan Dutt
- Cinema as archive
- Poetry or Music as archive
- Dutt, the 1970s, concepts
- The spectres of the 1970s in Dutt/archive
- Notes
- Foreword
- 2 Ashish Rajadhyaksha deployed this expression in the context of Andhra Pradesh's Chunduru massacre of 1991, where an act of defiance of caste within the exhibition space led to violence against Dalits. He also referred to the nomadic, bohemian life and d
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- References
- Preface
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 11
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-350-37114-9
- 1-350-37116-5
- 1-350-37115-7
- OCLC:
- 1479535163
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