New Indian cinema in post-independence India
Subtitle: the cultural work of Shyam Benegal's films
By: Anuradha Dingwaney Needham
Series: Intersections: colonial and postcolonial histories -- 8; Intersections (London, England) -- 8.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780415693974; 9780203766743
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The nation as its women. "The places occupied by women": gender, subalternity, and the (nation-)state in Ankur and Nishant; title: "Performing wom[e]n": the Nachne-Ganewalis" of Bhumika; Mandi; and Sardari Begum; title: The nation's alternative and self-authorized biographies. Fictional engagements with (national) history: Junoon, Mammo, and Trikal; title: A pantheon of national heroes: Nehru, the making of the Mahatma, and Bose: the forgotten hero; title: The nation and its ideologies of development. "Making these cause films": cinematic renditions of the developmental agendas of the (nation- )state.