Narratives of Indian Cinema

EDITOR- Manju Jain

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Cinema emerged a little more than a century ago to become one of the most potent forms of expression that has made an impact on practically every sphere of theory and praxis. The present volume attempts to address some of the questions that arise in a consideration of the complex role that cinema has performed and continues to perform in the public sphere in India. The focus of this volume is on issues related to the shifting responses of the colonial state, the Indian nationalists and intellectuals, and the popular press to the emerging medium of cinema and its creative potential. The book examines the threats as well as the challenges to this new medium; the transitions and the continuities, the filiations and the ruptures, from the colonial to the postcolonial as represented in cinema.
The schisms, fissures, and conflicts of the colonial state, and later of the postcolonial nation state which is increasingly marked by the economic and cultural processes of globalization, accompanied paradoxically, and perhaps inevitably, by bitter local and ethnic conflicts are critically analysed in the context of the local, national, and global financial networks within which cinema is located is also taken up.
This collection of essays by subject specialists examines the politics of violence, communalism, and terrorism as negotiated in cinema; the representations of identitarian politics; and the complex ideological underpinnings of literary adaptations.

The Editor
Manju Jain retired as Professor from the Department of English, University of Delhi. She is the author of T.S. Eliot and American Philosophy: The Harvard Years (Cambridge, 1992) and A Critical Reading of the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot (Delhi, 1991). She is currently translating Premchand’s novel Rangbhoomi.

Contributors
Ved Prakash Baruah l Nandini Chandra l Seymour Chatman l Rashmi Doraiswamy l Karen Gabriel l Priya Jaikumar l Anuja Jain l Shweta Sachdeva Jha l Lalit Joshi l Sonali Pattnaik l M. Madhava Prasad l Poonam Trivedi l Valentina Vitali

Cinema emerged a little more than a century ago to become one of the most potent forms of expression that has made an impact on practically every sphere of theory and praxis. The present volume attempts to address some of the questions that arise in a consideration of the complex role that cinema has performed and continues to perform in the public sphere in India. The focus of this volume is on issues related to the shifting responses of the colonial state, the Indian nationalists and intellectuals, and the popular press to the emerging medium of cinema and its creative potential. The book examines the threats as well as the challenges to this new medium; the transitions and the continuities, the filiations and the ruptures, from the colonial to the postcolonial as represented in cinema.
The schisms, fissures, and conflicts of the colonial state, and later of the postcolonial nation state which is increasingly marked by the economic and cultural processes of globalization, accompanied paradoxically, and perhaps inevitably, by bitter local and ethnic conflicts are critically analysed in the context of the local, national, and global financial networks within which cinema is located is also taken up.
This collection of essays by subject specialists examines the politics of violence, communalism, and terrorism as negotiated in cinema; the representations of identitarian politics; and the complex ideological underpinnings of literary adaptations.

The Editor
Manju Jain retired as Professor from the Department of English, University of Delhi. She is the author of T.S. Eliot and American Philosophy: The Harvard Years (Cambridge, 1992) and A Critical Reading of the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot (Delhi, 1991). She is currently translating Premchand’s novel Rangbhoomi.

Contributors
Ved Prakash Baruah l Nandini Chandra l Seymour Chatman l Rashmi Doraiswamy l Karen Gabriel l Priya Jaikumar l Anuja Jain l Shweta Sachdeva Jha l Lalit Joshi l Sonali Pattnaik l M. Madhava Prasad l Poonam Trivedi l Valentina Vitali

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface vii-viii
Introduction ix-xx
Part I: Writing Cinema The Colonial To The Global
The Natives Are Looking: Cinema And Censorship In Colonial India M. Madhava Prasad 3-17
Cinema And Hindi Periodicals In Colonial India: 1920–1947 Lalit Joshi 19-51
History Matters Valentina Vitali 53-66
Part II: Fractured Polities
The Panoramic Vision And The Descent Of Darkness: Issues In Contramodernity Rashmi Doraiswamy 69-84
Melodramatic Imaginings: Representations Of Sectarian Violence Within Hindi Popular Cinema And Indian Documentaries Anuja Jain 85-95
A New Universalism: Terrorism And Film Language In Mani Ratnam’s Kannathil Muthamittal Priya Jaikumar 97-120
Part III: Negotiating Identities
Merit And Opportunity In The Child-Centric Nationalist Films Of The 1950s Nandini Chandra 123-144
Reading Rape: Sexual Difference, Representational Excess And Narrative Containment Karen Gabriel 145-166
Frames Of Cinematic History: The Tawa’if In Umrao Jan And Pakeezah Shweta Sachdeva Jha 167-192
Part Iv: Literary And Cinematic Imaginaries
The Art Of Film Adaptation: The Remains Of The Day Seymour Chatman 195-209
Screening Reality: The Remains Of The Day As Fact,Fiction And Film From A Postcolonial Perspective Ved Prakash Baruah 211-227
‘Filmi’ Shakespeare Poonam Trivedi 229-247
A Dramatic Film: Performative Politics In Peter Brook’s Mahabharata Sonali Pattnaik 249-260
Notes On Contrbutors 261-264
Index 265-274