196 Pages
by
Routledge India
196 Pages
by
Routledge India
196 Pages
by
Routledge India
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This book examines Shyam Benegal’s films and alternative image(s) of India in his cinema, and traces the trajectory of changing aesthetics of his cinema in the post-liberalisation era. The book engages with the challenges faced by India as a nation-state in post-colonial times. Looking at hybrid and complex narratives of films like Manthan, Junoon, Kalyug, Charandas Chor, Sooraj Ka Satvaan... Read more
Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Assertion to Empowerment: Narratives of Social Change 2. Women and the Nation 3. Political Commentaries through Adaptations 4. Adapting History 5. Contestations with Indian Modernity 6. Changing Moffusil spaces and New (Middle) Cinema. Bibliography. Filmography. Index.
Biography
Vivek Sachdeva is a professor at the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India. As well as being a translator, he is the author of Fiction to Film: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s The Householder and Heat and Dust; he also co-edited Identities in South Asia: Conflicts and Assertions.
