Zakir Hossain Raju

Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity

In Search of the Modern?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the relationship between cinema and modernity in Bangladesh. It investigates the roles of a non-western 'national' film industry in Asia in constructing nationhood and identity within colonial and postcolonial predicaments, and analyses the political, economic and cultural forces that have been active in shaping Bangladesh cinema. The author explores how the conflict among different social groups turned Bangladesh cinema into a site of contesting identities during the twentieth century and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415465441
• ISBN-10: 0415465443
• Artikelnr.: 31083057

Autorenporträt

Zakir Hossain Raju is Professor in Media and Communication and Dean of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Independent University Bangladesh. His research focuses on film and identity, cultural translation and popular visual culture in trans-Asian contexts, especially relating to the cinemas of Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and South Korea.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1.Methods in Film Historiography: Towards an Interpretive
History of Bangladesh Cinema 2.National Cinema and Non-Western Modernity:
Framework to Study Bangladesh Cinema 3. National Cinema Study and Beginning
of/in Bangladesh Film History 4. Bengali Cinema and Cultural Modernity in
Colonial Bengal 5. Dhaka Film Industry and Bengali-Muslim Modernity in
Postcolonial East Pakistan 6. Popular Cinema in between Nation-state and
Market Forces in Contemporary Bangladesh 7. Cultural Modernity and Art Film
Discourses: Towards a Global Bangladeshi Cinema?