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New Indian cinema in post-independence India : the cultural work of Shyam Benegal's films / by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.Description: xvii, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781138653269
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43023 /NEE/N
Contents:
Introduction -- The nation as its women. "The places occupied by women": gender, subalternity, and the (nation-)state in Ankur and Nishant -- "Performing women": the Nachne-Ganewalis" of Bhumika; Mandi; and Sardari Begum -- The nation's alternative and self-authorized biographies. Fictional engagements with (national) history: Junoon, Mammo, and Trikal -- A pantheon of national heroes: Nehru, the making of the Mahatma, and Bose: the forgotten hero -- The nation and its ideologies of development. "Making these cause films": cinematic renditions of the developmental agendas of the (nation-)state.
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Introduction -- The nation as its women. "The places occupied by women": gender, subalternity, and the (nation-)state in Ankur and Nishant -- "Performing women": the Nachne-Ganewalis" of Bhumika; Mandi; and Sardari Begum -- The nation's alternative and self-authorized biographies. Fictional engagements with (national) history: Junoon, Mammo, and Trikal -- A pantheon of national heroes: Nehru, the making of the Mahatma, and Bose: the forgotten hero -- The nation and its ideologies of development. "Making these cause films": cinematic renditions of the developmental agendas of the (nation-)state.

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