South Asian Filmscapes: Transregional Encounters 0295747846, 9780295747842
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Table of contents :
Dedications
Contents
Acknowledgments
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 afterthe 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-WingFilmmaking: 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
Dedications
Contents
Acknowledgments
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 afterthe 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-WingFilmmaking: 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 (editor)
- Esha Niyogi De (editor)
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