{"product_id":"south-asian-filmscapes-9780295747859","title":"South Asian Filmscapes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew political realities and shared histories connect film cultures across bordersIn South Asia massive anticolonial movements in the twentieth century created nation-states and reset national borders, forming the basis for emerging film cultures. Following the upheaval of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, new national cinemas promoted and reinforced prevailing hierarches of identity and belonging. At the same time, industrial and independent cinemas contributed to remarkably porous and hybrid film cultures, reflecting the intertwining of South Asian histories and their reciprocal cultural influences. This cross-fertilization within South Asian cultural production continues today.   South Asian Filmscapes excavates these complex politics and poetics of bordered identity and crossings through selected histories of cinema in South Asia. Several essays reveal ways in which fixed notions of national identity have been destabilized by the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Transregional Archives, Cinematic Encounters: Filmscapes across South Asia\u003cbr\u003e Elora Halim Chowdhury and Esha Niyogi De\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I: Nations and Regional Margins\u003cbr\u003e 1.) National Identity and Cinematic Representation: Independent Films in Bangladesh\u003cbr\u003e Fahmidul Haq\u003cbr\u003e 2.) Female Friendship and Forbidden Desire: Two Films from 1960s Pakistan\u003cbr\u003e Kamran Asdar Ali\u003cbr\u003e 3.) Bringing Back Sikhs after the 1984 Pogrom: The Politics of Picturization in Hindi Cinema\u003cbr\u003e Amit Ranjan\u003cbr\u003e 4.) Silencing Films from the Chittagong Hill Tracts: Indigenous Cinema’s Challenge to the Imagined Cultural Homogeneity of Bangladesh\u003cbr\u003e Glen Hill and Kabita Chakma\u003cbr\u003e 5.) Pakistan, History, and Sleep: Hassan Tariq, a Progressive Patriarch, and Neend\u003cbr\u003e Nasreen Rehman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II: Transregional Crossings\u003cbr\u003e 6.) The Public in the Cities: Detouring through Cinemas of Bombay, Calcutta, and Lahore (1920s–1930s)\u003cbr\u003e Madhuja Mukherjee\u003cbr\u003e 7.) Cross-Wing Filmmaking: East Pakistani Urdu Films and Their Traces in the Bangladesh Film Archive\u003cbr\u003e Lotte Hoek\u003cbr\u003e 8.) Action Heroines and Regional Gifts: Authorship Crossing Pakistan\u003cbr\u003e Esha Niyogi De\u003cbr\u003e 9.) Realism and Region in South Indian Cinemas, 1947–1977\u003cbr\u003e Hariprasad Athanickal\u003cbr\u003e 10.) \"This Is London, Not Pakistan!\": Articulations of the Diaspora in Pakistani Punjabi Film\u003cbr\u003e Gwendolyn S. Kirk\u003cbr\u003e 11.) The Birth of a Cinema in Post-9\/11 Pakistan\u003cbr\u003e Zebunnisa Hamid\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III: Fractured Geographies, South Connectivities\u003cbr\u003e 12.) Zahir Raihan's Stop Genocide (1971): A Dialectical Cinematic Message to the World\u003cbr\u003e Fahmida Akhter\u003cbr\u003e 13.) Gender, War, and Resistance: The Case of Kashmir\u003cbr\u003e Alka Kurian\u003cbr\u003e 14.) Cinema That Raises a Critical Consciousness: The Films of Alamgir Kabir\u003cbr\u003e Naadir Junaid\u003cbr\u003e 15.) Ethical Encounters: Friendship and Healing in Contemporary Films about the Bangladesh Liberation War\u003cbr\u003e Elora Halim Chowdhury\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400896127319,"sku":"9780295747859","price":35.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295747859.jpg?v=1730471876","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/south-asian-filmscapes-9780295747859","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}