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1 online resource (xv, 261 pages) : illustrations |
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Metamorphoses of the political: multidisciplinary approaches |
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Metamorphoses of the political: multidisciplinary approaches.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Evacuee Cinema -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Moving Picture -- Partition as Impending Pakistan -- Listening to the Movement -- Whither All-India Film? -- Writing Two Histories Together -- An Archival Disposition -- An Itinerant Anatomy -- Translations -- Notes -- 1 The All-India Ambitions of Lahore -- Punjab on the Film Map of India -- The Jocular Vein of Lahore -- An All-India Film from Lahore -- Notes -- PART 1 THE SECULAR STANCE OF BOMBAY |
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2 'Hindu Camera, Muslim Microphone': A Periodical and Two Memoirs -- The Periodical Filmindia, 1940-1952 -- The Virus of Communalism -- Muslim Masses and Pakistani Producers -- Dangerous Pictures -- Two Memoirs: The Life-writings of Shaukat Hussain Rizvi and M. Luqman -- Cultural Capital -- Procedures of Prejudice -- Articulating Politicised Difference -- Notes -- 3 Stages of Partition: The Early Years of Prithvi Theatre -- The Partition Repertoire -- Melodharma of the Colonised: Deewar -- Popularity and Power -- Notes -- PART 2 BETWEEN BOMBAY AND PAKISTAN |
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4 The Partition Wish: Fazli Brothers and the Muslim Social -- Filling a Lacuna in Representation -- A New Production Field in Colonial India -- The Muslim Modernity of Fazli Films -- Selling the Muslim Social -- Muslim Social in Black-and-White -- Notes -- 5 The Partition Romance: Meena and the Shorey Comedies -- An Actress Remembers -- Highly Unfortunate but Highly Talented -- The Cosmopolitics of Shorey Comedies -- The Partition Screwball: Ek Thi Ladki (1949) -- The Hindu-Muslim Bug of Romance -- Notes -- 6 The Partition Doppelgänger: Rattan Kumar and the Pakistani Charbas |
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Bombay Beginnings and the 'Voice of an Orphan' -- Traces of Migration -- Producing Pakistani Cinema in Lahore -- Charba as Competition -- Charba as Loss -- The Magic of Past: Nagin and Alladin Ka Beta -- Notes -- Conclusion: Evacuee Cinema -- Notes -- Appendix: Three Film Transcripts from the Fazli Family Collection -- Ismat (Purity, 1944 -- Director: Sibtain Fazli -- Cast: Nargis, Nandrekar, Mehtab) -- Dil (Heart, 1946 -- Director: S. F. Hasnain -- Cast: Noorjahan, Baby Zubeida, Kamal Zamindar, Geeta Bose) -- Shama (The Flame, 1946 -- Producer: Sohrab Modi |
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Disputed Director Credits, Cast: Mehtab, Wasti, Prakash) -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Official Reports -- Government Records -- Newspapers -- Film Journals and Magazines -- Memoirs, Film Compendiums and Published Plays -- Private Papers -- Books and Articles -- Web Resources -- Index |
| Summary |
This new history of partition and South Asian cinema is narrated through the careers of émigré film personnel, as well as through the distinctive genres and ancillary ventures that accompanied the aftershocks of partition. Moving beyond arguments about social contingency and political intent, the book suggests that the creative energies, production and subsequent circulation of popular cinema can offer fresh insights into partition. Pointing to regional connections across national boundaries, this book asserts that the cinemas of India and Pakistan must be explored in tandem to uncover the legacy of partition for the culture industries of the region, one that is not hewn out of national erasures. The leitmotifs of émigré personnel, gossip and satire in film print culture, the partisan repertoire of a theatre company, the film genres of the Muslim social, romantic comedies and charba (remakes), and the unruly film archives of postcolonial nation-states, when accessed through the lens of a divisive decolonization, reveal the parallaxes and confabulations of the 'national' on both sides |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 25, 2022) |
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Motion picture industry -- India.
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Motion picture industry -- Pakistan
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Motion picture industry
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| SUBJECT |
India -- History -- Partition, 1947.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97003291
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India -- History -- Partition, 1947 -- Influence.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007010428
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India
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Pakistan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009151214 |
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1009151215 |
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