Mourning the nation
Subtitle: Indian cinema in the wake of Partition
By: Bhaskar Sarkar.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780822343936; 9780822344117
Subjects: Motion pictures -- India; India -- In motion pictures; India -- History -- Partition, 1947
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : national cinema's hermeneutic of mourning; title: Cinema's project of nationhood; title: Runes of laceration; title: Bengali cinema : a spectral subnationality; title: Dispersed nodes of articulation; title: Ghatak, melodrama, and the restitution of experience; title: Tamas and the limits of representation; title: Mourning (un)limited; title: Coda : the critical enchantment of mourning.