Shyam Benegal’s India: Alternative Images - Rilegato

Sachdeva, Vivek

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ISBN 10: 036719533X ISBN 13: 9780367195335

Casa editrice: Routledge India, 2019

Riassunto

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 Ghoda, Zubeidaa and Well Done Abba , among others, it analyses how these stories and characters, adapted and derived from mythology, folk-tales, historical fiction and novels, are rooted in the socio-political contexts of modern India. The author explores diverse themes in Benegal’s cinema such as the loss of home and identity, women’s sexuality, and the status of dalits and Muslims in India. He also focuses on how the filmmaker expertly weaves history with myth, culture, and contemporary politics and discusses the debate around the interpretive value of film adaptations, adaptation of history and the representations of marginalised communities and liminal spaces.

The book will be useful for students and researchers of film studies, cultural studies, and the humanities. It will also interest readers of Indian cinema and the social and cultural history of India.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Routledge India
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 036719533X
• ISBN 13: 9780367195335
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 186
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile