New Indian Cinema in Post-Independence India - The Cultural Work of Shyam Benegals Films

Informationen zum Autor Anuradha Dingwaney Needham is Donald R. Longman Professor of English at Oberlin College, USA. She is the author of Using the Master’s Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas (2000), and has co-edited Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts (1996) and The Crisis of Secularism in India (2007). Klappentext This volume provides a different understanding of India's post-independence history through a close analysis of several feature and documentary films of Shyam Benegal. Providing a fuller understanding of Indian cinema! this book gives important insights into the imagination of the time. Zusammenfassung Shyam Benegal is an Indian director and screenwriter whose work is considered central to New Indian cinema. By closely analysing several of Benegal’s films, this book provides an understanding of India’s post-independence history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: The Nation as Its Women 1. "The Places Occupied by Women": Gender, Subalternity, and the (Nation-)State in Ankur and Nishant 2. "Performing Wom[e]n": The " Nachne-Ganewalis " of Bhumika; Mandi; and Sardari Begum Part 2: The Nation’s Alternative and Self-Authorized Biographies 3. Fictional Engagements With (National) History: Junoon, Mammo , and Trikal 4. A Pantheon of National Heroes: Nehru, The Making of the Mahatma, and Bose: The Forgotten Hero Part 3: The Nation and its Ideologies of Development 5. "Making these cause films": Cinematic Renditions of the Developmental Agendas of the (Nation-)State

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• Authors: Anuradha Needham, Anuradha (Oberlin College Needham
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.2013
• EAN: 9780415693974
• ISBN: 978-0-415-69397-4
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; History, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, India, Films, cinema, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Regional Geography, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General