000			02663cam a2200277 i 4500
005			20160527162226.0
008			140708s2015 enk b 001 0 eng
020			_a9780415465441 (hardback)
041			_aeng
082	0	0	_a791.430954 _bRAJ
100	1		_aRaju, Zakir Hossain, _911344
245	1	0	_aBangladesh cinema and national identity : _bin search of the modern? / _cby Zakir Hossain Raju.
250			_a1st ed :
260			_aLondon ; _bRoutledge ; _c2015.
300			_axvi, 225 p ; _eHbk.
490	0		_aRoutledge contemporary South Asia series ;
520			_a"Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, cinema has been adopted as a popular cultural institution in Bangladesh. At the same time, this has been the period for the articulation of modern nationhood and cultural identity of Bengali Muslims in Bangladesh. This book analyses the relationship between cinema and modernity in Bangladesh, providing a narrative of the uneven process that produced the idea of 'Bangladesh cinema'. This book investigates the roles of a non-western 'national' film industry in Asia in constructing nationhood and identity within colonial and postcolonial predicaments. The political and economic forces and the cultural institutions that have been active in shaping Bangladesh cinema are presented. The author explores how the conflict among different social groups turned Bangladesh cinema into a site of contesting identities during the twentieth century and beyond. In particular, he illustrates the connections between film production and reception in Bangladesh and a variety of nationalist constructions of Bengali Muslim identity. Drawing on the idea of cinema as public sphere and the postcolonial notion of formation of the 'Bangladesh' nation, interactions between cinema and middle-class Bengali Muslims in different social and political matrices are analysed. The first major academic study on this large and vibrant national cinema, this book demonstrates that Bangladesh national cinema worked as different 'public spheres' for different 'publics' throughout the twentieth century. Filling a niche in Global Film and Media Studies and South Asian Studies, it will be of interest to scholars and students of these disciplines"--
650		0	_aMotion pictures _911345
650		0	_aNational characteristics in motion pictures. _911346
650		0	_aMotion picture industry _910259
650		0	_aMuslims in motion pictures. _910251
650		0	_aNational characteristics in motion pictures. _911347
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General. _93635
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. _98323
942			_cBK
999			_c31110 _d31110