New Indian cinema in post-independence India : the cultural work of Shyam Benegal's films by, Anuradha Dingwaney Needham.

By:

Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Intersections: colonial and postcolonial historiesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.Description: xvii, 218 pISBN:

9780415693974

DDC classification:

791.4302/33092 NEE

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Central Library General Section	791.4302/33092 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out to Bhavya Pahuja (180708002)	23/07/2024	029869

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