ReFocus: The Films of Shyam Benegal / / ed. by Sneha Kar Chaudhuri.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Ahmed, Omar,; Chatterjee, Sayanty,; Chaudhuri, Ritu Sen,; Chaudhuri, Sneha Kar,; Mathur, Suchitra,; Mendes, Ana Cristina,; Mondal, Sarani Ghosal,; Mukherjee, Somak,; Nikhila, H.,; Ray, Arunima,; Sachdeva, Vivek,; Samaddar, Ramit,; Sen, Partha Pratim,; Shastri, Sudha,; Viswamohan, Aysha Iqbal,
• HerausgeberIn: Chaudhuri, Sneha Kar,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 34 B/W illustrations 34 B&W images

The first edited collection of essays dedicated to Shyam Benegal’s career and filmsOffers in-depth scholarship on Indian parallel, or new wave, cinemaProvides cultural contexts for Benegal’s films, including representations of gender, class, and casteCan be used in academic courses dealing with Bollywood, gender politics, subaltern studies, media studies, adaptation, and postcolonialismShyam Benegal is widely perceived as one of the most influential Indian filmmakers, yet his voluminous body of work remains relatively under-studied in contemporary film scholarship.To help fill this critical lacuna, ReFocus: The Films of Shyam Benegal undertakes a closer look at Benegal’s films, a trailblazing auteur who successfully redefined the contours of non-commercial Hindi language cinema. This addition to ReFocus: The International Directors Series will consider how Benegal, over the course of his forty year career, used cinema as a potent medium to narrate the story of a nation in continuous transition. The 13 essays in the volume will explore how Benegal’s films articulate his concerns over caste, class, gender, religion, and other allied social, economic and political problems characterizing the Indian subcontinent. This collection also includes a full-length interview with Shyam Benegal that investigates his perspectives on the art of film-making.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Ankur: Multiple Narratives of Protest -- Chapter 2. Nishant and the New Dawn: Towards a Sacerdotal–Secular Modernity? -- Chapter 3. Churning Out Change: A Moment of Reading Manthan -- Chapter 4. Where Labour is Performed: The Public/Private Dichotomy and the Politics of Stigma in Bhumika and Mandi -- Chapter 5. Adaptation and Epistemic Redress: The Indian Uprising in Ɉunoon -- Chapter 6. Cause and Kin: Knowledge and Nationhood in Kalyug -- Chapter 7. The Ascent in Arohan -- Chapter 8. From Fidelity to Creativity: Benegal and Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda -- Chapter 9. Mammo and Projections of the Muslim Woman: Indian Parallel Cinema, Partition and Belonging -- Chapter 10. Adapting Gandhi/Kasturba in The Making of the Mahatma -- Chapter 11. In Search of Zubeidaa -- Chapter 12. Subversive Heroism and the Politics of Biopic Adaptation in Bose: The Forgotten Hero -- Chapter 13. The Rural in the Glocal Intersection: Representation of Space in Welcome to Sajjanpur and Well Done Abba -- Chapter 14. Shyam Benegal in Conversation with Anuradha Dingwaney Needham -- Index