New Indian cinema in post-independence India : the cultural work of Shyam Benegal's films
by, Anuradha Dingwaney Needham.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
- xvii, 218 p. :
- Intersections: colonial and postcolonial histories ; .
Introduction -- The nation as its women. "The places occupied by women": gender, subalternity, and the (nation-)state in Ankur and Nishant -- "Performing women": the Nachne-Ganewalis" of Bhumika; Mandi; and Sardari Begum -- The nation's alternative and self-authorized biographies. Fictional engagements with (national) history: Junoon, Mammo, and Trikal -- A pantheon of national heroes: Nehru, the making of the Mahatma, and Bose: the forgotten hero -- The nation and its ideologies of development. "Making these cause films": cinematic renditions of the developmental agendas of the (nation-)state.