Title Lahore cinema : between realism and fable / Iftikhar Dadi

Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 238 pages) : illustrations Series Global South Asia Global South Asia. 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 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 Analysis Film history, theory & criticism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 15, 2022) Subject Motion pictures -- Pakistan -- History -- 20th century Motion pictures -- Pakistan -- Lahore -- History -- 20th century Motion pictures -- Urdu-speaking countries PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism Motion pictures Pakistan Pakistan -- Lahore Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2022015153 ISBN 9780295750804 0295750804

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