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This book analyses how independent filmmakers from Bangladesh have
represented national identity in their films. The focus of this
book is on independent and art house filmmakers and how cinema
plays a vital role in constructing national and cultural identity.
The authors examine post-2000 films which predominantly deal with
issues of national identity and demonstrate how they tackle
questions of national identity. Bangladesh is seemingly a
homogenous country consisting 98% of Bengali and 90% of Muslim.
This majority group has two dominant identities - Bengaliness (the
ethno-linguistic identity) and Muslimness (the religious identity).
Bengaliness is perceived as secular-modern whereas Muslimness is
perceived as traditional and conservative. However, Bangladeshi
independent and art house filmmakers portray the nationhood of the
country with an enthusiasm and liveliness that exceeds these two
categories. In addition to these categories, the authors add two
more dimensions to the approach to discuss identity: Popular
Religion and Transformation. The study argues that these identity
categories are represented in the films, and that they both
reproduce and challenge dominant discourses of nationalism.
Providing a new addition to the discourse of contemporary national
identity, the book will be of interest to researchers studying
international film and media studies, independent cinema studies,
Asian cinema, and South Asian culture, politics, and identity
politics.
This book tried to investigate the potentials, trends and
challenges of digital film in Bangladesh. The study has studied
four digital films as cases to understand the digital film
situation in Bangladesh. However, the theoretical notions by Walter
Benjamin (1936) and Samira Makhmalbaf (2000) were instructive in
guiding this study. According to their approach, new technological
art medium always liberate and democratize art forms. Enthusiasts
indicate that new filmmakers will embrace digital film as the
preferred format and create a new cinema tradition in Bangladesh.
Responding to that euphoria of technological liberty, this study
has examined the potentials of digital cinema in Bangladesh, the
trends of existing digital filmmaking practices and problems of
digital cinema in Bangladesh. After in-depth analysis and
discussion, this study suggests how to progress digital filmmaking
practices in Bangladesh.
The environmental humanities-founded on the indivisible
human-environment nexus-focus on socioeconomic inequalities,
injustices, and various cultural differences to explain
environmental degradation and crises and to propose solutions. The
Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader: Environmental Justice,
Developmental Victimhood, and Resistance presents unique analyses
of Bangladesh's environment-development relationships. The book
looks at developmental victimhood, environmental injustices, and
resistance of the marginalized in Bangladesh. It reflects how the
popular GDP-based economic development model motivates governments
of Bangladesh to undertake infrastructural and "development"
projects, the growth of which threatens environment and livelihood
of the poorer sections while benefiting the affluent profiteers.
The book also critically engages with environmentalism represented
through the literary works in Bangla through tales of pollution,
depletion, and human-nature symbiosis, showing ways to achieve
social justice to resist victimhood through art. Moreover,
agricultural technologies shaped by cultivators-scientists'
collaborations are often helpful for biodiversity conservation,
notwithstanding those that ruin ecology and livelihood. Against the
backdrop of climate change challenges, this book shows how politics
and technology meet in many cross-cutting pathways.
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