Popular Cinema in Bengal : (Record no. 6699)

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ISBN 9780367330828
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Classification number 791.43
Item number MukP
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Personal name
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Title Popular Cinema in Bengal :
Remainder of title Genre, Stars, Public Cultures /
Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Madhuja Mukherjee and Kaustav Bakshi
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Place of publication Oxon :
Name of publisher Routledge,
Year of publication ©2020.
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Number of Pages x, 253p.
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Title Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
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Formatted contents note 1. Introduction: A brief introduction to popular cinema in Bengal: genre, stardom, public cultures<br/><br/>Madhuja Mukherjee and Kaustav Bakshi<br/><br/>Part I: Styles, Stars and Popular Forms<br/><br/>2. Rethinking popular cinema in Bengal (1930s–1950s): of literariness, comic mode, mythological and other avatars<br/><br/>Madhuja Mukherjee<br/><br/>3. Kanan Devi: a Bengali star<br/><br/>Sharmistha Gooptu<br/><br/>4. Performing the region: Sadhona Bose and the modern Bengali film dance<br/><br/>Pritha Chakrabarti<br/><br/>5. A postcolonial iconi-city: Re-reading Uttam Kumar’s cinema as metropolar melodrama<br/><br/>Sayandeb Chowdhury<br/><br/>6. Filmfare and the question of Bengali cinema (1955–65)<br/><br/>Anustup Basu<br/><br/>7. From Teen Kanya to Arshinagar: feminist politics, Bengali high culture and the stardom of Aparna Sen<br/><br/>Kaustav Bakshi and Rohit K. Dasgupta<br/><br/>8. The action heroes of Bengali cinema: industrial, technological and aesthetic determinants of popular film culture, 1980s–1990s<br/><br/>Spandan Bhattacharya<br/><br/>Part II: Ray and Felu Mittir, the private detective<br/><br/>9. Feluda on Feluda: a letter to Topshe<br/><br/>Rochona Majumdar<br/><br/>10. Reviewing ‘Feluda on Feluda’: Maganlal Meghraj ‘Writes Back’ to Tapesh<br/><br/>Kaushik Bhaumik<br/><br/>11. Negotiating mobility and media: the contemporary digital afterlives of Feluda<br/><br/>Pujita Guha<br/><br/>Part III: Photo Essays: Public Cultures<br/><br/>12. A booklets sequence<br/><br/>Moinak Biswas<br/><br/>13. Inside a dark hall: space, place, and accounts of some single-theatres in Kolkata<br/><br/>Madhuja Mukherjee<br/><br/>14. Rituparno Ghosh, performing arts and a queer legacy: an abiding stardom<br/><br/>Kaustav Bakshi<br/><br/>15. A Rendezvous with the Ghosh Brothers: A Sneak Peek into Bengal’s Homegrown Exploitation Cinema<br/><br/>Subhajit Chatterjee
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Summary, etc Popular Cinema in Bengal marks a decisive turn in studies of Bengali language cinema by shifting the focus from auteur and text-based studies to exhaustive readings of the film industry.<br/><br/>The book covers a wide range of themes and issues, including: generic tropes (like comedy and action); iconic figurations (of the detective and the city); (female) stars such as Kanan Bala, Sadhana Bose and Aparna Sen; intensities of public debates (subjects of high and low cultures, taste, viewership, gender and sexuality); print cultures (including posters, magazines and song-booklets); cinematic spaces; and trans-media and trans-cultural traffic. By locating cinema within the crosscurrents of geo-political transformations, the book highlights the new and persuasive research that has materialised over the last decade. The authors raise pertinent questions regarding 'regional' cinema as a category, in relation to 'national' cinema models, and trace the non-linear journey of the popular via multiple (media) trajectories. They address subjects of physicality, sexuality and its representations, industrial change, spaces of consumption, and cinema’s meandering directions through global circuits and low-end networks.<br/><br/>Highlighting the ever-changing contours of cinema in Bengal in all its popular forms and proposing a new historiography, Popular Cinema in Bengal will be of great interest to scholars of film studies and South-Asian popular culture. The chapters were originally published in the journal South Asian History and Culture.
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Topical Term Motion Pictures
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Personal name Mukherjee, Madhuja [Ed.]
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Personal name Bakshi, Kaustav [Ed.]
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