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Lahore Cinema : : Between Realism and Fable / / Iftikhar Dadi



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Autore: Dadi Iftikhar Visualizza persona
Titolo: Lahore Cinema : : Between Realism and Fable / / Iftikhar Dadi Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: University of Washington Press, 2022
Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , [2022]
©[2022]
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource.)
Disciplina: 791.43/095491
Soggetto topico: Motion pictures
Motion pictures - Urdu-speaking countries
Motion pictures - Pakistan - Lahore - History - 20th century
Motion pictures - Pakistan - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: Pakistan Lahore
Pakistan
Soggetto genere / forma: History
Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: Film history, theory & criticism
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: The Lahore effect -- Between neorealism and humanism: Jago Hua Savera -- Lyric romanticism: Khurshid Anwar's Music and films -- Cinema and politics: Khalil Qaiser and Riaz Shahid -- The Zinda Bhaag Assemblage: reflexivity and form.
Sommario/riassunto: "The post-Partition cinema produced between 1956 and 1969-the long '60s-in Lahore, Pakistan, drew promiscuously from Hindu mythology, Bengali performance traditions, Islamicate legends, Sufi conceptions of the self, Punjabi and Sindhi oral narratives, Parsi theater, Urdu lyric poetry, historical and social realism, Hollywood musicals, the psychological and sensorial stimulus of modernity, and more. Consideration of this rich field of influence offers insights into not only the decade that led to the overthrow of the Ayub Khan government, followed in 1971 by the loss of Bangladesh, but also into cultural affiliation in the fraught South Asian present, when frameworks of multiplicity and plurality are in jeopardy. Urdu-language films from Lahore made during this period reveal ways that cinematic form and narrative intersect with cultural memory and with the challenges of their time, characterized by trauma in the aftermath of Partition in 1947, a constricted socio-political horizon, and accelerating modernity. In Lahore Cinema Iftikhar Dadi probes the role of language, rhetoric, and lyric in the making of meaning, and the relevance of the Urdu cultural universe to the genesis of Bombay filmmaking. He argues that commercial cinema in South Asia is among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization. It has provided affective and imaginative resources for its audiences to navigate an accelerating modernity and a fraught politics by anchoring social change across the terrain of deeper cultural imaginaries. And it has played an influential progressive role during the mid-twentieth century, by constituting publics beyond existing social divides, in forging a shared and expanded experience of modernity that extends beyond regional, ethnic, and sectarian affiliations, and in affectively challenging the selective amnesia of nation-state ideologies"--
Titolo autorizzato: Lahore Cinema  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9780295750804
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910622301403321
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Serie: Global South Asia Series