1st Edition
Popular Cinema in Bengal Genre, Stars, Public Cultures
1. Introduction: A brief introduction to popular cinema in Bengal: genre, stardom, public cultures
Madhuja Mukherjee and Kaustav Bakshi
Part I: Styles, Stars and Popular Forms
2. Rethinking popular cinema in Bengal (1930s–1950s): of literariness, comic mode, mythological and other avatars
Madhuja Mukherjee
3. Kanan Devi: a Bengali star
Sharmistha Gooptu
4. Performing the region: Sadhona Bose and the modern Bengali film dance
Pritha Chakrabarti
5. A postcolonial iconi-city: Re-reading Uttam Kumar’s cinema as metropolar melodrama
Sayandeb Chowdhury
6. Filmfare and the question of Bengali cinema (1955–65)
Anustup Basu
7. From Teen Kanya to Arshinagar: feminist politics, Bengali high culture and the stardom of Aparna Sen
Kaustav Bakshi and Rohit K. Dasgupta
8. The action heroes of Bengali cinema: industrial, technological and aesthetic determinants of popular film culture, 1980s–1990s
Spandan Bhattacharya
Part II: Ray and Felu Mittir, the private detective
9. Feluda on Feluda: a letter to Topshe
Rochona Majumdar
10. Reviewing ‘Feluda on Feluda’: Maganlal Meghraj ‘Writes Back’ to Tapesh
Kaushik Bhaumik
11. Negotiating mobility and media: the contemporary digital afterlives of Feluda
Pujita Guha
Part III: Photo Essays: Public Cultures
12. A booklets sequence
Moinak Biswas
13. Inside a dark hall: space, place, and accounts of some single-theatres in Kolkata
Madhuja Mukherjee
14. Rituparno Ghosh, performing arts and a queer legacy: an abiding stardom
Kaustav Bakshi
15. A Rendezvous with the Ghosh Brothers: A Sneak Peek into Bengal’s Homegrown Exploitation Cinema
Subhajit Chatterjee
Biography
Madhuja Mukherjee is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Jadavpur University, India. Her publications include New Theatres Ltd.: The Emblem of Art, The Picture of Success (2009), Aural Films, Oral Cultures (2012), and the award-winning anthology Voices of the Talking Stars (2017). She is co-editor of Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India (forthcoming).
Kaustav Bakshi is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Jadavpur University, India. A Charles Wallace Fellow, he has worked on Anglophone Sri Lankan Literature for his doctoral thesis. His published books include Anxieties, Influences and After: Critical Responses to Postcolonialism and Neocolonialism (2009) and Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, Gender, and Art (2017).
