Shyam Benegal's India: Alternative Images

ISBN-13: 9780367784270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 186 str.

Vivek Sachdeva

Opis

This book examines Shyam Benegal’s films, alternative image(s) of India in his cinema and traces the changing aesthetics in the post-liberalization era. Looking at hybrid and complex narratives of films it analyses how these stories and characters are rooted in the socio-political contexts of modern India.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Assertion to Empowerment: Narratives of Social Change 2. Women and the Nation 3. Political Commentaries through Adaptations 4. Adapting History 5. Contestations with Indian Modernity 6. Changing Moffusil spaces and New (Middle) Cinema. Bibliography. Filmography. Index.

O autorze

Vivek Sachdeva is a professor at the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India. As well as being a translator, he is the author of Fiction to Film: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s The Householder and Heat and Dust; he also co-edited Identities in South Asia: Conflicts and Assertions.