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Popular Cinema in Bengal: Genre, Stars, Public Cultures

Popular Cinema in Bengal: Genre, Stars, Public Cultures

Bakshi, Kaustav
Mukherjee, Madhuja

Hardcover

Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture

General SociologyFilm Guides & ReferenceIndian & South Asian Art

ISBN10: 0367330822
ISBN13: 9780367330828
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 7 2020
Pages: 254
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Popular Cinema in Bengal marks a decisive turn in studies of Bengali language cinema by shifting the focus from auteur and text-based studies to exhaustive readings of the film industry.

The book covers a wide range of themes and issues, including: generic tropes (like comedy and action); iconic figurations (of the detective and the city); (female) stars such as Kanan Bala, Sadhana Bose and Aparna Sen; intensities of public debates (subjects of high and low cultures, taste, viewership, gender and sexuality); print cultures (including posters, magazines and song-booklets); cinematic spaces; and trans-media and trans-cultural traffic. By locating cinema within the crosscurrents of geo-political transformations, the book highlights the new and persuasive research that has materialised over the last decade. The authors raise pertinent questions regarding 'regional' cinema as a category, in relation to 'national' cinema models, and trace the non-linear journey of the popular via multiple (media) trajectories. They address subjects of physicality, sexuality and its representations, industrial change, spaces of consumption, and cinema's meandering directions through global circuits and low-end networks.

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