Research Catalog

Title

Popular cinema in Bengal : genre, stars, public cultures / edited by Madhuja Mukerjee and Kaustav Bakshi.

Publication

London : Routledge, [2020]

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Additional Authors

• Mukerjee, Madhuja
• Bakshi, Kaustav

Description

x, 253 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

Popular Cinema in Bengal 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 book covers a wide range of themes and issues, including: generic tropes (like comedy and action); iconic figurations (of the detective and the city); (female) stars such as Kanan Bala, Sadhana Bose and Aparna Sen; intensities of public debates (subjects of high and low cultures, taste, viewership, gender and sexuality); print cultures (including posters, magazines and song-booklets); cinematic spaces; and trans-media and trans-cultural traffic. By locating cinema within the crosscurrents of geo-political transformations, the book highlights the new and persuasive research that has materialised over the last decade. The authors raise pertinent questions regarding 'regional' cinema as a category, in relation to 'national' cinema models, and trace the non-linear journey of the popular via multiple (media) trajectories. They address subjects of physicality, sexuality and its representations, industrial change, spaces of consumption, and cinema's meandering directions through global circuits and low-end networks. Highlighting the ever-changing contours of cinema in Bengal in all its popular forms and proposing a new historiography, Popular Cinema in Bengal will be of great interest to scholars of film studies and South-Asian popular culture. The chapters were originally published in the journal South Asian History and Culture.

Series Statement

Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

Uniform Title

South Asian history and culture.

Subject

• Motion pictures > India > West Bengal
• Motion pictures
• India > West Bengal

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

MFL 20-2583

ISBN

• 9780367330828
• 0367330822

OCLC

1096221516

Title

Popular cinema in Bengal : genre, stars, public cultures / edited by Madhuja Mukerjee and Kaustav Bakshi.

Publisher

London : Routledge, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

South Asian history and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Mukerjee, Madhuja, editor.

Bakshi, Kaustav, editor.

Research Call Number

MFL 20-2583