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Informationen zum Autor Gayathri Prabhu is a Professor at the Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Karnataka, India. Her professional experience of over ten years in film and television includes assisting in direction and screenwriting. She is the author of Vetaal and Vikram (2019), If I Had to Tell It Again (2017), The Untitled (2016), Birdswim Fishfly (2006) and Maya (2003). She has published in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication , Transnational Literature and Ecloga. Nikhil Govind is the Head of the Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Karnataka, India. He has published in the areas of Indian aesthetic and political modernism and is on the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. He is the author of Inlays of Subjectivity: Affect and Action in Modern Indian Literature (2019) and Between Love and Freedom: The Revolutionary in the Hindi Novel (2014). Klappentext The years between Indian independence (1947) and the dominance of colour cinema (early 1960s) saw the emergence and fruition of a distinct, confident, and nuanced black and white aesthetic in Hindi mainstream cinema. Shadow Craft is an ardent and immersive study of cinematic craftings that emblematise the oeuvres of Kamal Amrohi, Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, and Abrar Alvi. Films such as Aag (1948), Mahal (1949), Seema (1955), Pyaasa (1957), Sujata (1959), Kagaz Ke Phool (1959), Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962), Bandini (1963) remain formative to the visual psyche of generations of South Asian viewers. This enduring visual language demonstrates a minutely attuned and sympathetic camera, evocative pools of shadow, affect-rich atmospheric composition, and the visual autonomy of performance.With seventy five rare and curated images from the archives, Shadow Craft offers for the first time a consolidated and intimate journey through this pioneering black and white cinema aesthetic at its most expressive and climactic moment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Note on Images and Translation In Gratitude Introduction: The Promise of Monochromatic Cinema in Independent IndiaOverture: Kamal Amrohi's Mahal (1949) The Rebellious Image: Raj Kapoor's Aag (1948) Female (Self) Portraiture in Monochrome: Nutan in Bimal Roy's Sujata (1959) and Bandini (1963) Framing the Artist: Guru Dutt's Pyaasa (1957) and Kaagaz ke Phool (1959) The Waiting Dissolve: Abrar Alvi's Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam (1962) Conclusion: Fade to Colour Outro: Reel Number 13 Endnotes Bibliography Index About the Authors...
