1st Edition
Bollywood and the First Decade of Independence Seven Directors in Search of a Nation
Introduction
Chapter 1: V Shantaram: From Reformist Idealism to Doubt
Chapter 2: Mehboob Khan: Charting the Nation’s Trajectory
Chapter 3: Bimal Roy: The Eternal Truths of Literature
Chapter 4: Guru Dutt: Tradition and Democracy
Chapter 5: Raj Kapoor: The Filmmaker and his Image
Chapter 6: Raj Khosla: Moral Watchdogs in a Fledgling Democracy
Chapter 7: BR Chopra: From Entertainment to Concern
Afterword: The Concerns and Attitudes of the 1950s
Index
Biography
Devapriya Sanyal is Assistant Professor at School of Communication and Media Studies, St Joseph’s University, Bengaluru. She is the author of several books on film and gender such as Failed Masculinities: The Men in Satyajit Ray’s Films, Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema: The Women in Satyajit Ray’s Films (Routledge, UK), Salman Khan: The Man, The Actor, The Legend and Through the Eyes of a Cinematographer: The Biography of Soumendu Roy. Her writings have appeared in national and international journals. She has a PhD from the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
