Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures : : Film and History in the Postcolony / / Rochona Majumdar.
The project of Indian art cinema began in the years following independence in 1947, at once evoking the global reach of the term “art film” and speaking to the aspirations of the new nation-state. In this pioneering book, Rochona Majumdar examines key works of Indian art cinema to demonstrate how fi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 35 b&w film stills |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- PART I: THE HISTORY OF ART CINEMA
- 1. Art Cinema: The Indian Career of a Global Category
- 2. The “New” Indian Cinema: Journeys of the Art Film
- 3. Debating Radical Cinema: A History of the Film Society Movement
- PART II: ART FILMS AS HISTORY
- 4. Ritwik Ghatak and the Overcoming of History
- 5. “Anger and After”: History, Political Cinema, and Mrinal Sen
- 6. The Untimely Filmmaker: Ray’s City Trilogy and a Crisis of Historicism
- Epilogue: Art Cinema and Our Present
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index