Bengali Cinema: 'An Other Nation' (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series) - Softcover

Gooptu, Sharmistha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415674492 ISBN 13: 9780415674492

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Covering the years spanning cinema's emergence as a popular form in Bengal in the first half of the twentieth century, this book examines the main genres and trends produced by this cinema, and leads up to Bengali cinema's last phase of transition in the 1980s. Arguing that Bengali cinema has been a key economic and social institution, the author highlights that the Bengali filmic imaginary existed over and above the imaginary of the Indian nation.

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About the Author

Sharmistha Gooptu is a founder and managing trustee of the South Asia Research Foundation (SARF), a not-for-profit research body based in India. SARF’s current project SAG (South Asian Gateway) is in partnership with Taylor and Francis, and involves the creation of what will be the largest South Asian digital database of historical materials. She is also the joint editor of the journal South Asian History and Culture (Routledge) and the Routledge South Asian History and Culture book series.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415674492
• ISBN 13: 9780415674492
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248