South Asian Filmscapes: Transregional Encounters

ISBN 10: 0295747854 / ISBN 13: 9780295747859

Published by University of Washington Press, 2020

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pp. 336.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: South Asian Filmscapes: Transregional Encounters
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295747854
• ISBN 13: 9780295747859
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

New political realities and shared histories connect film cultures across borders

In 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 cross-border mobility of filmed arts and practitioners, while others interrogate how filmic politics intersects with discourses of nationalism, sexuality and gender, religion, and language. Together, they offer a fluid approach to the multiple histories and encounters that conjure “South Asia” as a geographic and political entity in the region and globally through a cinematic imagination.

About the Authors

Elora Chowdhury is associate professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Massachussetts Boston. She is author of Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing Against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh (SUNY Press, 2011), which won the National Women’s Studies Association Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize in 2012.

Esha Niyogi De is senior full-time lecturer of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of Empire, Media, and the Autonomous Woman (Oxford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia (Duke University Press, 2002).