Vivek Sachdeva

Shyam Benegal's India

Alternative Images

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines Shyam Benegal's films, alternative image(s) of India in his cinema and traces the changing aesthetics in the post-liberalization era. Looking at hybrid and complex narratives of films it analyses how these stories and characters are rooted in the socio-political contexts of modern India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780367784270
• ISBN-10: 0367784270
• Artikelnr.: 61212281

Autorenporträt

Vivek Sachdeva is a professor at the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India. As well as being a translator, he is the author of Fiction to Film: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's The Householder and Heat and Dust; he also co-edited Identities in South Asia: Conflicts and Assertions.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Assertion to Empowerment: Narratives of
Social Change 2. Women and the Nation 3. Political Commentaries through
Adaptations 4. Adapting History 5. Contestations with Indian Modernity 6.
Changing Moffusil spaces and New (Middle) Cinema. Bibliography.
Filmography. Index.