New Indian Cinema in Post-Independence India: The Cultural Work of Shyam Benegal's Films

ISBN-13: 9781138575455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 222 str.

Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

Opis

Shyam Benegal is an Indian director and screenwriter whose work is considered central to New Indian cinema. By closely analysing several of Benegal’s films, this book provides an understanding of India’s post-independence history.

Spis treści

Introduction Part 1: The Nation as Its Women  1. "The Places Occupied by Women": Gender, Subalternity, and the (Nation-)State in Ankur and Nishant 2. "Performing Wom[e]n": The "Nachne-Ganewalis" of Bhumika; Mandi; and Sardari Begum Part 2: The Nation’s Alternative and Self-Authorized Biographies  3. Fictional Engagements With (National) History: Junoon, Mammo, and Trikal 4. A Pantheon of National Heroes: Nehru, The Making of the Mahatma, and Bose: The Forgotten Hero Part 3: The Nation and its Ideologies of Development  5. "Making these cause films": Cinematic Renditions of the Developmental Agendas of the (Nation-)State

O autorze

Anuradha Dingwaney Needham is Donald R. Longman Professor of English at Oberlin College, USA. She is the author of Using the Master’s Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas (2000), and has co-edited Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts (1996) and The Crisis of Secularism in India (2007).