South Asian Filmscapes: Transregional Encounters

Author:   Elora Halim Chowdhury ,  Esha Niyogi De
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
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Pages:   340
Publication Date:   30 November 2020
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Author:   Elora Halim Chowdhury ,  Esha Niyogi De
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
Imprint:   University of Washington Press
Weight:   1.315kg
ISBN:  

9780295747859


ISBN 10:   0295747854
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   30 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Introduction. Transregional Archives, Cinematic Encounters: Filmscapes across South Asia Elora Halim Chowdhury and Esha Niyogi De 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 Contributors Index"

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Elora Halim Chowdhury is professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and author of Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing Against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh. Esha Niyogi De is a lecturer in English at UCLA and author of Empire, Media, and the Autonomous Woman: A Feminist Critique of Postcolonial Thought.

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