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Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures

Rochona Majumdar
pubblicato da Columbia University Press

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Co-Winner, 2023 Chidananda Dasgupta Award for the Best Writing on Cinema, Chidananda Dasgupta Memorial Trust

Shortlisted, 2022 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association

Longlisted, 2022 Moving Image Book Award, Kraszna-Krausz Foundation

The project of Indian art cinema began in the years following independence in 1947, at once evoking the global reach of the term "art film" and speaking to the aspirations of the new nation-state. In this pioneering book, Rochona Majumdar examines key works of Indian art cinema to demonstrate how film emerged as a mode of doing history and that, in so doing, it anticipated some of the most influential insights of postcolonial thought.

Majumdar details how filmmakers as well as a host of film societies and publications sought to foster a new cinematic culture for the new nation, fueled by enthusiasm for a future of progress and development. Good films would help make good citizens: art cinema would not only earn global prestige but also shape discerning individuals capable of exercising aesthetic and political judgment. During the 1960s, however, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, and Ritwik Ghatakthe leading figures of Indian art cinemabecame disillusioned with the belief that film was integral to national development. Instead, Majumdar contends, their works captured the unresolvable contradictions of the postcolonial present, which pointed toward possible, yet unrealized futures.

Analyzing the films of Ray, Sen, and Ghatak, and working through previously unexplored archives of film society publications, Majumdar offers a radical reinterpretation of Indian film history. Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures offers sweeping new insights into film's relationship with the postcolonial condition and its role in decolonial imaginations of the future.

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Generi Cinema e Spettacolo » Cinema » Teoria e critica » Professioni del cinema , Storia e Biografie » Storia dell'Asia

Editore Columbia University Press

Formato Ebook con Adobe DRM

Pubblicato 12/10/2021

Lingua Inglese

EAN-13 9780231553902

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