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This book analyses the relationship between cinema and modernity in Bangladesh. It investigates the roles of a non-western `national¿ film industry in Asia in constructing nationhood and identity within colonial and postcolonial predicaments, and analyses the political, economic and cultural forces that have been active in shaping Bangladesh cinema. The author explores how the conflict among different social groups turned Bangladesh cinema into a site of contesting identities during the twentieth century and beyond.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction 1.Methods in Film Historiography: Towards an Interpretive History of Bangladesh Cinema 2.National Cinema and Non-Western Modernity: Framework to Study Bangladesh Cinema 3. National Cinema Study and Beginning of/in Bangladesh Film History 4. Bengali Cinema and Cultural Modernity in Colonial Bengal 5. Dhaka Film Industry and Bengali-Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial East Pakistan 6. Popular Cinema in between Nation-state and Market Forces in Contemporary Bangladesh 7. Cultural Modernity and Art Film Discourses: Towards a Global Bangladeshi Cinema?
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Zakir Hossain Raju is Professor in Media and Communication and Dean of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Independent University Bangladesh. His research focuses on film and identity, cultural translation and popular visual culture in trans-Asian contexts, especially relating to the cinemas of Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and South Korea.
