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Title South Asian filmscapes : transregional encounters / edited by Elora Halim Chowdhury, Esha Niyogi De
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Part I: Nations and Regional Margins -- 1. National Identity and Cinematic Representation: Independent Films in Bangladesh / Fahmidul Haq -- 2. Female Friendship and Forbidden Desire: Two Films from 1960s Pakistan / Kamran Asdar Ali -- 3. Bringing Back Sikhs after the 1984 Pogrom: The Politics of Picturization in Hindi Cinema / Amit Ranjan -- 4. Silencing Films from the Chittagong Hill Tracts: Indigenous Cinema's Challenge to the Imagined Cultural Homogeneity of Bangladesh / Glen Hill and Kabita Chakma -- 5. Pakistan, History, and Sleep: Hassan Tariq, a Progressive Patriarch, and Neend / Nasreen Rehman -- Part II: Transregional Crossings -- 6. The Public in the Cities: Detouring through Cinemas of Bombay, Calcutta, and Lahore (1920s-1930s) / Madhuja Mukherjee -- 7. Cross-Wing Filmmaking: East Pakistani Urdu Films and Their Traces in the Bangladesh Film Archive / Lotte Hoek -- 8. Action Heroines and Regional Gifts: Authorship Crossing Pakistan / Esha Niyogi De -- 9. Realism and Region in South Indian Cinemas, 1947-1977 / Hariprasad Athanickal -- 10. "This Is London, Not Pakistan!": Articulations of the Diaspora in Pakistani Punjabi Film / Gwendolyn S. Kirk -- 11. The Birth of a Cinema in Post-9/11 Pakistan / Zebunnisa Hamid -- Part III: Fractured Geographies, South Connectivities -- 12. Zahir Raihan's Stop Genocide (1971): A Dialectical Cinematic Message to the World / Fahmida Akhter -- 13. Gender, War, and Resistance: The Case of Kashmir / Alka Kurian -- 14. Cinema That Raises a Critical Consciousness: The Films of Alamgir Kabir / Naadir Junaid -- 15. Ethical Encounters: Friendship and Healing in Contemporary Films about the Bangladesh Liberation War / Elora Halim Chowdhury
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
Notes "This volume, the inaugural publication of the South Asian Regional Media Scholars Network (SARMSNet)" --Text
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 04, 2021)
Subject Motion pictures -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
Motion pictures -- South Asia -- History -- 21st century -- Congresses
Motion picture industry -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
Motion picture industry -- South Asia -- History -- 21st century -- Congresses
National characteristics in motion pictures -- Congresses
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Motion picture industry
Motion pictures
National characteristics in motion pictures
South Asia
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Chowdhury, Elora Halim, editor.
De, Esha Niyogi, editor.
South Asian Regional Media Scholars Network.
LC no. 2020013712
ISBN 9780295747866
0295747862