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Shooting Terror highlights the disturbing immediacy of acts of
terror and how cinema responds to them. It follows the changing
representations of terrorism in Hindi cinema by fielding in-depth
textual analyses of films such as Roja, Maachis, Black Friday, Tere
Bin Laden, Uri: The Surgical Strike, among others. It traces how
terror and the terrorist have come to be viewed in the Indian
cultural space and lays the grounds for a multivalent, perspectival
reading of cinema and terrorism. Moving from the threat of terror
condensed in the Mogambo-esque villain in Mr. India, to the
showcasing of terror and the terrorist in their lived-in realities
in Haider and Shahid, the book explores the fraught connections
between terror and the themes of devastation and trauma; between
terror and the urban cityscape. It also seeks to highlight the
place of humour and satire in films on terrorism and the presence
of the reactionary far right in these films. One of the first books
to present a composite picture of terrorism in contemporary Hindi
cinema, this volume will be of interest to researchers and
academics of cultural studies, media and film studies, and the
study of sociopsychological violence in media and culture.
Filming the Line of Control charts out the history of the
relationship between India and Pakistan as represented in cinema,
especially in light of the improved political atmosphere between
the two countries. It is geared towards arriving at a better
understanding of one of the most crucial political and historical
relationships in the continent, a relationship that has a key role
to play in world-politics and in the shaping of world-history. Part
of this exciting study is the documentation of popular responses to
Indian films, from both within the two countries and among the
Pakistani and Indian diaspora. The motive of this has been to
locate and discuss aspects that link the two sensibilities - either
in divergence or in their coming together. This book brings
together scholars from across the globe, as also filmmakers and
viewers on to a common platform to capture the dynamics of popular
imagination. Reverberating with a unique inter-disciplinary
alertness to cinematic, historical, cultural and sociological
understanding, this study will interest readers throughout the
world who have their eye on the burgeoning importance of the
sub-continental players in the world-arena. It is a penetrating
study of films that carries the thematic brunt of attempting to
construct a history of Indo-Pakistan relations as reflected in
cinema. This book directs our holistic attention to the unique
confluence between history and film studies.
Since the 9/11 attacks terror has established its permeating hold
on society's psyche. Creative writing, a popular and visible
cultural witness to the strain, has taken up this destabilization
with remarkable regularity. Troubled Testimonies focuses on the
Indian novel in English, deriving inspiration from these
disturbances, to essay a unique grasp of the cultural make-up of
the times and its reverberations on the sense of self and belonging
to the nation. This first full-length study of terror in the
subcontinental novel in English (from India) places it in the world
context and analyzes the fictional coverage of the spread of
terrorism across the country and its cultural fallout. The
enigmatic coming together of the contemporary with the anguish of
loss and betrayal unleashed by terror occasions a significant
redefinition of the issues of trauma, conflict and gender, and
opens a fresh window to Indian writing and the culture of the
subcontinent, and a new paradigm in literary and cultural criticism
termed 'post-terrorism'. Lucid and thought provoking, this book
will be useful to scholars and researchers of South Asian
literature, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, history,
politics and sociology.
Since the 9/11 attacks terror has established its permeating hold
on society's psyche. Creative writing, a popular and visible
cultural witness to the strain, has taken up this destabilization
with remarkable regularity. Troubled Testimonies focuses on the
Indian novel in English, deriving inspiration from these
disturbances, to essay a unique grasp of the cultural make-up of
the times and its reverberations on the sense of self and belonging
to the nation. This first full-length study of terror in the
subcontinental novel in English (from India) places it in the world
context and analyzes the fictional coverage of the spread of
terrorism across the country and its cultural fallout. The
enigmatic coming together of the contemporary with the anguish of
loss and betrayal unleashed by terror occasions a significant
redefinition of the issues of trauma, conflict and gender, and
opens a fresh window to Indian writing and the culture of the
subcontinent, and a new paradigm in literary and cultural criticism
termed 'post-terrorism'. Lucid and thought provoking, this book
will be useful to scholars and researchers of South Asian
literature, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, history,
politics and sociology.
Shooting Terror highlights the disturbing immediacy of acts of
terror and how cinema responds to them. It follows the changing
representations of terrorism in Hindi cinema by fielding in-depth
textual analyses of films such as Roja, Maachis, Black Friday, Tere
Bin Laden, Uri: The Surgical Strike, among others. It traces how
terror and the terrorist have come to be viewed in the Indian
cultural space and lays the grounds for a multivalent, perspectival
reading of cinema and terrorism. Moving from the threat of terror
condensed in the Mogambo-esque villain in Mr. India, to the
showcasing of terror and the terrorist in their lived-in realities
in Haider and Shahid, the book explores the fraught connections
between terror and the themes of devastation and trauma; between
terror and the urban cityscape. It also seeks to highlight the
place of humour and satire in films on terrorism and the presence
of the reactionary far right in these films. One of the first books
to present a composite picture of terrorism in contemporary Hindi
cinema, this volume will be of interest to researchers and
academics of cultural studies, media and film studies, and the
study of sociopsychological violence in media and culture.
Filming the Line of Control charts out the history of the
relationship between India and Pakistan as represented in cinema,
especially in light of the improved political atmosphere between
the two countries. It is geared towards arriving at a better
understanding of one of the most crucial political and historical
relationships in the continent, a relationship that has a key role
to play in world-politics and in the shaping of world-history. Part
of this exciting study is the documentation of popular responses to
Indian films, from both within the two countries and among the
Pakistani and Indian diaspora. The motive of this has been to
locate and discuss aspects that link the two sensibilities - either
in divergence or in their coming together. This book brings
together scholars from across the globe, as also filmmakers and
viewers on to a common platform to capture the dynamics of popular
imagination. Reverberating with a unique inter-disciplinary
alertness to cinematic, historical, cultural and sociological
understanding, this study will interest readers throughout the
world who have their eye on the burgeoning importance of the
sub-continental players in the world-arena. It is a penetrating
study of films that carries the thematic brunt of attempting to
construct a history of Indo-Pakistan relations as reflected in
cinema. This book directs our holistic attention to the unique
confluence between history and film studies.
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