TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chowdhury,Elora Halim
AU  - De,Esha Niyogi
ED  - South Asian Regional Media Scholars Network.
TI  - South Asian filmscapes: transregional encounters 
SN  - 9780295747842
AV  - PN1993.5.S64 S67 2021
U1  - 791.43 CHO 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Pakistan
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - South Asia
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Congresses
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Motion picture industry
KW  - National characteristics in motion pictures
N1  - "This volume, the inaugural publication of the South Asian Regional Media Scholars Network (SARMSNet)" --Text; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "According Esha De and Elora Chowdhury, the legacies of industrial and independent cinemas in the subcontinent of South Asia reveal an intertwining of South Asian histories that show geopolitical and social boundaries to be both porous and hybrid. On the one hand, cinematic portrayals encode the effects of the massive geopolitical rifts born in postcolonial south Asia of religious, linguistic, and ethnic conflicts--the primary being the India-Pakistan Partition (1947) and the Bangladesh Liberation War (1971). Practices and policies of cinema in the nation-states (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) likewise reinforce prevailing hierarches of identity and belonging. On the other hand, the combined histories of cinema and sociality in the South Asian region are replete with cross fertilization the effects of which lingered on well past the Partition of India and Pakistan and the birth of Bangladesh. The essays in this volume reveal ways in which fixed notions of national identity have been destabilized by the cross-border mobility of filmed arts and practitioners across South Asia and interrogate how filmic politics intersect with discourses around nationalism, sexuality and gender, religion, and language"--
ER  -