Refocus: The Films of Shyam Benegal

The first edited collection of essays dedicated to Shyam Benegal's career and films.

About the author

Dr Sneha Kar Chaudhuri is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at West Bengal State University. She received her BA (Hons), MA and PhD degrees in English from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She is the Editorial Board member of the international peer-reviewed journal, Neo-Victorian Studies (Swansea University, UK). Her recent publications include a chapter on Tagore's adaptations in Tagore's Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre (2020). Her co-edited volume is entitled Tagore's Ideas of the New Woman: The Making and Unmaking of Female Subjectivity (2017). Her areas of specialization are Neo-Victorian Studies, historical fiction and cinema, Adaptation Studies and Gender Studies. Dr Ramit Samaddar is Assistant Professor of English at Jadavpur University. His areas of interest are Romanticism, Victorian studies, travel writing, Bollywood cinema, and Hindi literature.

Summary

The first edited collection of essays dedicated to Shyam Benegal's career and films.

Product details

• Authors: Sneha Kar Samaddar Chaudhuri, CHAUDHURI SNEHA KAR
• Assisted by: Sneha Kar Chaudhuri (Editor), Ramit Samaddar (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781474452861
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-5286-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: ReFocus: The International Directors Series; Refocus: The International Dir
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet