| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) |
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Cover; Filming the Line of Control: The Indo-Pak Relationship throughthe Cinematic Lens; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Negotiating the Border; 1 Genre Development in the Age of Markets and Nationalism: The War Film; 2 Aggression and Transgression on the India-Pakistan Border; 3 Borders and Border Crossings in Main Hoon Na and Veer-Zaara; Drawn Lines; 4 Partition Literature and Films: Pinjar and Earth; 5 'Millions of Daughters of Punjab Weep Today': The Female Perspective in Partition Films; 6 'Broken Memories, Incomplete Dreams': Notes towards an 'Authentic' Partition Cinema |
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7 Partitioned Memories: The Trauma of Partition in Ghatak's FilmsRapprochement; 8 Defining a Non-Pakistan-centric Post-globalisation Self in Hindi Cinema 1996-2006; 9 'Kaisi Sarhaden, Kaisi Majbooriyan': Two Countries, Two Enemies, One Love Story; 10 My Brother, My Enemy: Crossing the Line of Control through the Documentary; 11 Fascist Imaginaries and Clandestine Critiques: Young Hindi Film Viewers Respond to Violence, Xenophobia and Love in Cross-border Romances; Interviews; 12 Aijaz Gul on Cinema in Pakistan: History, Present Scenario and Future Prospects |
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13 Guftagu: M.S. Sathyu, Javed Akhtar, Mahesh BhattFilmography; Bibliography; About the Editors; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Filming the Line of Control charts out the history of the relationship between India and Pakistan as represented in cinema, especially in light of the improved political atmosphere between the two countries. It is geared towards arriving at a better understanding of one of the most crucial political and historical relationships in the continent, a relationship that has a key role to play in world-politics and in the shaping of world-history. Part of this exciting study is the documentation of popular responses to Indian films, from both within the two countries and among the Pakistani and I |
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Print version record |
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Boundaries in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- India -- History
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Motion pictures
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International relations
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Boundaries in motion pictures
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Relations -- Pakistan -- Pāṭa
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Pakistan -- Relations -- India
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Pakistan
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India
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kumar, Nirmal
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| ISBN |
9780203150351 |
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020315035X |
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