Mourning the Nation - Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition

Informationen zum Autor Bhaskar Sarkar Klappentext Looks at representations of Partition in Indian cinema and argues that cinema functions as a method of cultural mourning that has helped the country grapple with a painful historical event. Zusammenfassung A work of film studies that traces how the traumatic Partition of India and Pakistan has been represented (or not represented) in Indian cinema from 1947 to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: National Cinema's Hermeneutic of Mourning 1 Part I. A Resonant Silence 1. Cinema's Project of Nationhood 47 2. Runes of Laceration 88 3. Bengali Cinema: A Spectral Subnationality 125 Part II. The Return of the Repressed 4. Dispersed Nodes of Articulation 169 5. Ghatak, Melodrama, and the Restitution of Experience 200 6. Tamas and the Limits of Representation 230 7. Mourning (Un)limited 259 Coda: The Critical Enchantment of Mourning 299 Notes 305 Bibliography 343 Index 365

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Bhaskar Sarkar, Sarkar, Bhaskar Sarkar
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 20.05.2009
• EAN: 9780822343936
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4393-6
• Pagine: 384
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto