South Asian Filmscapes : Transregional Encounters / edited by Elora Halim Chowdhury and Esha Niyogi De.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chowdhury, Elora Halim, editor.

De, Esha Niyogi, editor.

South Asian Regional Media Scholars Network.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures.

National characteristics in motion pictures.

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]

Summary:

"According Esha De and Elora Chowdhury, the legacies of industrial and independent cinemas in the subcontinent of South Asia reveal an intertwining of South Asian histories that show geopolitical and social boundaries to be both porous and hybrid. On the one hand, cinematic portrayals encode the effects of the massive geopolitical rifts born in postcolonial south Asia of religious, linguistic, and ethnic conflicts--the primary being the India-Pakistan Partition (1947) and the Bangladesh Liberation War (1971). Practices and policies of cinema in the nation-states (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) likewise reinforce prevailing hierarches of identity and belonging. On the other hand, the combined histories of cinema and sociality in the South Asian region are replete with cross fertilization the effects of which lingered on well past the Partition of India and Pakistan and the birth of Bangladesh. The essays in this volume reveal ways in which fixed notions of national identity have been destabilized by the cross-border mobility of filmed arts and practitioners across South Asia and interrogate how filmic politics intersect with discourses around nationalism, sexuality and gender, religion, and language"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Transregional Archives, Cinematic Encounters: Filmscapes across South Asia

Part I Nations and Regional Margins

1 National Identity and Cinematic Representation: Independent Films in Bangladesh

2 Female Friendship and Forbidden Desire: Two Films from 1960s Pakistan

3 Bringing Back Sikhs after the 1984 Pogrom: The Politics of Picturization in Hindi Cinema

4 Silencing Films from the Chittagong Hill Tracts: Indigenous Cinema’s Challenge to the Imagined Cultural Homogeneity of Bangladesh

5 Pakistan, History, and Sleep: Hassan Tariq, a Progressive Patriarch, and Neend

Part II Transregional Crossings

6 The Public in the Cities: Detouring through Cinemas of Bombay, Calcutta, and Lahore (1920s–1930s)

7 Cross -Wing Filmmaking: East Pakistani Urdu Films and Their Traces in the Bangladesh Film Archive

8 Action Heroines and Regional Gifts: Authorship Crossing Pakistan

9 Realism and Region in South Indian Cinemas, 1947–1977

10 “This Is London, Not Pakistan!” Articulations of the Diaspora in Pakistani Punjabi Film

11 The Birth of a Cinema in Post-9/11 Pakistan

Part III Fractured Geographies, South Connectivities

12 Zahir Raihan’s Stop Genocide (1971) A Dialectical Cinematic Message to the World

13 Gender, War, and Resistance: The Case of Kashmir

14 Cinema That Raises a Critical Consciousness: The Films of Alamgir Kabir

15 Ethical Encounters: Friendship and Healing in Contemporary Films about the Bangladesh Liberation War

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295747866

0295747862

OCLC:

1184124392