Popular Cinema in Bengal: Genre, Stars, Public Cultures

ISBN-13: 9780367330828 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 254 str.

Madhuja Mukherjee; Kaustav Bakshi

Opis

This comprehensive volume 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. The chapters were originally published in the journal South Asian History and Culture.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: A brief introduction to popular cinema in Bengal: genre, stardom, public cultures

Madhuja Mukherjee and Kaustav Bakshi

Part I: Styles, Stars and Popular Forms

2. Rethinking popular cinema in Bengal (1930s–1950s): of literariness, comic mode, mythological and other avatars

Madhuja Mukherjee

3. Kanan Devi: a Bengali star

Sharmistha Gooptu

4. Performing the region: Sadhona Bose and the modern Bengali film dance

Pritha Chakrabarti

5. A postcolonial iconi-city: Re-reading Uttam Kumar’s cinema as metropolar melodrama

Sayandeb Chowdhury

6. Filmfare and the question of Bengali cinema (1955–65)

Anustup Basu

7. From Teen Kanya to Arshinagar: feminist politics, Bengali high culture and the stardom of Aparna Sen

Kaustav Bakshi and Rohit K. Dasgupta

8. The action heroes of Bengali cinema: industrial, technological and aesthetic determinants of popular film culture, 1980s–1990s

Spandan Bhattacharya

Part II: Ray and Felu Mittir, the private detective

9. Feluda on Feluda: a letter to Topshe

Rochona Majumdar

10. Reviewing ‘Feluda on Feluda’: Maganlal Meghraj ‘Writes Back’ to Tapesh

Kaushik Bhaumik

11. Negotiating mobility and media: the contemporary digital afterlives of Feluda

Pujita Guha

Part III: Photo Essays: Public Cultures

12. A booklets sequence

Moinak Biswas

13. Inside a dark hall: space, place, and accounts of some single-theatres in Kolkata

Madhuja Mukherjee

14. Rituparno Ghosh, performing arts and a queer legacy: an abiding stardom

Kaustav Bakshi

15. A Rendezvous with the Ghosh Brothers: A Sneak Peek into Bengal’s Homegrown Exploitation Cinema

Subhajit Chatterjee