Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable by Iftikhar Dadi Hardcover Book

Description: Lahore Cinema by Iftikhar Dadi, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal Commercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 and 1969-the long sixties-in Lahore, Pakistan, following the 1947 Partition of South Asia. These films drew freely from Bengali performance traditions, Hindu mythology, Parsi theater, Sufi conceptions of the self, Urdu lyric poetry, and Hollywood musicals, bringing these traditions into dialogue with melodrama and neorealism. Examining this layered context offers insights into a period of rapid modernization and into cultural affiliation in the South Asian present, when frameworks of multiplicity and plurality are in jeopardy.Lahore Cinema probes the role of language, rhetoric, lyric, and form in the making of cinematic meaning as well as the relevance of the Urdu cultural universe to midcentury Bombay filmmaking. Challenging the assumption of popular cinema as apolitical, Dadi explores how films allowed their audiences to navigate an accelerating modernity and tense politics by anchoring social change across the terrain of deeper cultural imaginaries. By constituting publics beyond social divides of regional, ethnic, and sectarian affiliations, commercial cinema played an influential progressive role during the mid- and later twentieth century in South Asia.Lahore Cinema is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of Cornell University.DOI: 10.6069/9780295750804 FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Iftikhar Dadi is John H. Burris Professor in History of Art at Cornell University. He is author of Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia and coeditor of Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space. Review "[A] pioneering contribution to the emerging field of cinema studies in Pakistan. Going beyond the spatial borders of nation-states in South Asia and the limitations of decades, Dadi explores the cinematic movement of aesthetic forms and political consciousness. Professor Dadis work will appeal to a wide readership, including South Asian cinephiles and scholars working on South Asian history and media studies. It serves as a key reference and a classic in the field of South Asian film and media studies." * The News on Sunday *"Even before Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable, the study of the cinema in Pakistan owed much to the work of Iftikhar Dadi…In many ways, [it] can be read as a companion to Dadis 2010 Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia. For the curious reader, these books should be read side-by-side. Together, they help us to better understand and appreciate the distinct contribution of these two seminal work" * South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies * Promotional A pioneering analysis of exemplary feature films Promotional "Headline" A pioneering analysis of exemplary feature films Details ISBN0295750790 Author Padma Kaimal Year 2022 ISBN-10 0295750790 ISBN-13 9780295750798 Format Hardcover Imprint University of Washington Press Place of Publication Seattle Country of Publication United States Pages 264 Subtitle Between Realism and Fable Publication Date 2022-11-08 UK Release Date 2022-11-08 Illustrations 30 b&w illus. AU Release Date 2022-11-08 NZ Release Date 2022-11-08 US Release Date 2022-11-08 Publisher University of Washington Press Alternative 9780295750811 DEWEY 791.43095491 Audience Professional & Vocational Series Global South Asia We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139253059;

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