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

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 Boll...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]
©2022
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 34 B/W illustrations 34 B&W images
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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