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Popular Cinema in Bengal - Genre, Stars, Public Cultures (Hardcover)
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Popular Cinema in Bengal - Genre, Stars, Public Cultures (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
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Popular Cinema in Bengal marks a decisive turn in studies of
Bengali language cinema by shifting the focus from auteur and
text-based studies to exhaustive readings of the film industry. The
book covers a wide range of themes and issues, including: generic
tropes (like comedy and action); iconic figurations (of the
detective and the city); (female) stars such as Kanan Bala, Sadhana
Bose and Aparna Sen; intensities of public debates (subjects of
high and low cultures, taste, viewership, gender and sexuality);
print cultures (including posters, magazines and song-booklets);
cinematic spaces; and trans-media and trans-cultural traffic. By
locating cinema within the crosscurrents of geo-political
transformations, the book highlights the new and persuasive
research that has materialised over the last decade. The authors
raise pertinent questions regarding 'regional' cinema as a
category, in relation to 'national' cinema models, and trace the
non-linear journey of the popular via multiple (media)
trajectories. They address subjects of physicality, sexuality and
its representations, industrial change, spaces of consumption, and
cinema's meandering directions through global circuits and low-end
networks. Highlighting the ever-changing contours of cinema in
Bengal in all its popular forms and proposing a new historiography,
Popular Cinema in Bengal will be of great interest to scholars of
film studies and South-Asian popular culture. The chapters were
originally published in the journal South Asian History and
Culture.
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