Refocus : the films of Shyam Benegal / edited by Sneha Kar Chaudhuri and Ramit Samaddar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chaudhuri, Sneha Kar, editor.

Samaddar, Ramit, editor.

Series:

Refocus.

ReFocus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Shyam Benegal is widely perceived as one of the most influential Indian filmmakers, yet his voluminous body of work remains relatively under-studied in contemporary film scholarship.<br><br>To help fill this critical lacuna, <i>ReFocus: The Films of Shyam Benegal</i> undertakes a closer look at Benegal's films, a trailblazing auteur who successfully redefined the contours of non-commercial Hindi language cinema. This addition to ReFocus: The International Directors Series will consider how Benegal, over the course of his forty year career, used cinema as a potent medium to narrate the story of a nation in continuous transition.<br><br>The thirteen essays in the volume will explore how Benegal's films articulate his concerns over caste, class, gender, religion, and other allied social, economic and political problems characterizing the Indian subcontinent. This collection also includes a full-length interview with Shyam Benegal that investigates his perspectives on the art of film-making.

The first edited collection of essays dedicated to Shyam Benegal's career and filmsOffers in-depth scholarship on Indian parallel, or new wave, cinemaProvides cultural contexts for Benegal's films, including representations of gender, class, and casteCan be used in academic courses dealing with Bollywood, gender politics, subaltern studies, media studies, adaptation, and postcolonialismShyam Benegal is widely perceived as one of the most influential Indian filmmakers, yet his voluminous body of work remains relatively under-studied in contemporary film scholarship.To help fill this critical lacuna, ReFocus: The Films of Shyam Benegal undertakes a closer look at Benegal's films, a trailblazing auteur who successfully redefined the contours of non-commercial Hindi language cinema. This addition to ReFocus: The International Directors Series will consider how Benegal, over the course of his forty year career, used cinema as a potent medium to narrate the story of a nation in continuous transition. The 13 essays in the volume will explore how Benegal's films articulate his concerns over caste, class, gender, religion, and other allied social, economic and political problems characterizing the Indian subcontinent. This collection also includes a full-length interview with Shyam Benegal that investigates his perspectives on the art of film-making.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Ankur: Multiple Narratives of Protest

Chapter 2. Nishant and the New Dawn: Towards a Sacerdotal-Secular Modernity?

Chapter 3. Churning Out Change: A Moment of Reading Manthan

Chapter 4. Where Labour is Performed: The Public/Private Dichotomy and the Politics of Stigma in Bhumika and Mandi

Chapter 5. Adaptation and Epistemic Redress: The Indian Uprising in Ɉunoon

Chapter 6. Cause and Kin: Knowledge and Nationhood in Kalyug

Chapter 7. The Ascent in Arohan

Chapter 8. From Fidelity to Creativity: Benegal and Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda

Chapter 9. Mammo and Projections of the Muslim Woman: Indian Parallel Cinema, Partition and Belonging

Chapter 10. Adapting Gandhi/Kasturba in The Making of the Mahatma

Chapter 11. In Search of Zubeidaa

Chapter 12. Subversive Heroism and the Politics of Biopic Adaptation in Bose: The Forgotten Hero

Chapter 13. The Rural in the Glocal Intersection: Representation of Space in Welcome to Sajjanpur and Well Done Abba

Chapter 14. Shyam Benegal in Conversation with Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Nov 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474452892

1474452892

9781474452885

1474452884

OCLC:

1417147648