E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten
Sarkar Mourning the Nation
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9221-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition
E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten
Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9221-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
A work of film studies that traces how the traumatic Partition of India and Pakistan has been represented (or not represented) in Indian cinema from 1947 to the present.
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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: National Cinema's Hermeneutic of Mourning 1
Part I. A Resonant Silence
1. Cinema's Project of Nationhood 47
2. Runes of Laceration 88
3. Bengali Cinema: A Spectral Subnationality 125
Part II. The Return of the Repressed
4. Dispersed Nodes of Articulation 169
5. Ghatak, Melodrama, and the Restitution of Experience 200
6. Tamas and the Limits of Representation 230
7. Mourning (Un)limited 259
Coda: The Critical Enchantment of Mourning 299
Notes 305
Bibliography 343
Index 365