Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity: In Search of the Modern?

ISBN-13: 9780815392200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 226 str.

Bangladesh) Zakir Hossain (Independent University Raju

Opis

This book analyses the relationship between cinema and modernity in Bangladesh. It investigates the roles of a non-western ‘national’ film industry in Asia in constructing nationhood and identity within colonial and postcolonial predicaments, and analyses the political, economic and cultural forces that have been active in shaping Bangladesh cinema. The author explores how the conflict among different social groups turned Bangladesh cinema into a site of contesting identities during the twentieth century and beyond.

O autorze

Zakir Hossain Raju is Professor in Media and Communication and Dean of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Independent University Bangladesh. His research focuses on film and identity, cultural translation and popular visual culture in trans-Asian contexts, especially relating to the cinemas of Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and South Korea.