1st Edition
South Asia in Alternative Cinema(s)
Introduction
VIVEK SACHDEVA, HARIPRASAD ATHANICKAL AND CHANDRAKANT A. LANGARE
PART I: Alternative Cinema(s)
1 Minor Avant-Gardists in the 1970s–1980s: History of an Alternate Cinema Movement in Kerala
HARIPRASAD ATHANICKAL
2 Remoulding the Alternative: Style and Aesthetics of Contemporary Alternative Indian Cinemas
HARMANPREET KAUR
3 M. S. Sathyu’s Ijjodu: A Visual Encounter between Tradition and Modernity
POOJA P. HALYAL
4 Foregrounding the Reading and the Writing Process: Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukhtankar’s Marathi Film Samhita
TRIPTI KAREKATTI
PART II: Contestations: Nation, Culture and Identity
5 Of Homogeneous Temporality and Dissonant Spaces: Demarcating a Space for Kannada in/vis-à-vis India in Kannada Parallel Films
NIKHILA S.
6 Remapping Calcutta: Old Media/New Media, Neighbourhoods and Alternative Cartographies of the City
MADHUJA MUKHERJEE
7 Chetan Anand’s Neecha Nagar: Reconfiguring the City through Struggle and Resilience
DIAMOND OBEROI VAHALI
8 Alternative Modes of Perception: A Reading of Perceptual Divide between Blind and Sighted Worlds in Sparsh
MANOHAR SANMUKHDAS VASWANI
PART III: Gender and Sexuality
9 Discourse(s) on Pakistan’s Screen: An Alternate Space for Culture Production and Re(Evaluating) Meaning around Religious Texts
SAMINA KHAN AND AMODINI SREEDHARAN
10 Relocating the Gaze: Through the Lens of Deepa Mehta
NISHAT HAIDER
11 The Namkeen Women: Locating Gender in Gulzar’s Film Narratives
SABA MAHMOOD BASHIR
12 Socio-Cultural Dynamics and Economic Implications: Unravelling Son Preferences in Indian Cinema
DEBJANI HALDER
13 The Cultural Amnesia: A Dialogue between Livelihood and Taboo
ANKITA ANANYAA GAYA, SEEMITA MOHANTY AND UPENDER GUNDALA
PART IV: Auteurs, Authors and Film Adaptations
14 Reading Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali: Discovering the Existential Strain
AMRIT MISHRA
15 Towards Self-Reliant Womanhood in Satyajit Ray’s Charulata
CHANDRAKANT A. LANGARE
16 Re-contextualizing and Adapting the Canon: The Example of Aparna Sen’s Ghawre Bairey Aaj (2019)
SNEHA KAR CHAUDHURI
17 Caste, Crying and Cinema: Engendering a Subaltern Cinematic Aesthetics through Adaptation
ARUNABHA BOSE
18 Troubled Loves: Adaptations and Intertextuality
AJANTA SIRCAR
19 From Words to Images: Satyajit Ray’s Re-interpretation of Premchand’s “Sadgati”
JAISHREE KAPUR
20 Unravelling the Question of “To Be, or Not to Be”: A Comparative Analysis of Hamlet and Haider
SURYA PRAKASH VERMA AND BINOD MISHRA
PART V: Borders and Beyond
21 Partition Cinema and Its Narrative Trajectories
ANUP SINGH BENIWAL
22 Lives, Cameras and Actions: Exile, Modernity, and Tibetan Cinema’s Marginal Space
PRIYANKA CHAKRABORTY
23 Representing Divine Femininity in Select Bhutanese Films
TSHERING YANGKI
Biography
Vivek Sachdeva teaches at the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi.
Hariprasad Athanickal teaches in the Department of Film Studies, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad.
Chandrakant A. Langare is Associate Professor of English at Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.
