Mourning the Nation
Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition
1st Edition
Published on 20. May 2009
384 pages
978-0-8223-9221-7 (ISBN)
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A work of film studies that traces how the traumatic Partition of India and Pakistan has been represented (or not represented) in Indian cinema from 1947 to the present.
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Bhaskar Sarkar is an assistant professor of film studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: National Cinema's Hermeneutic of Mourning 1
Part I. A Resonant Silence
1. Cinema's Project of Nationhood 47
2. Runes of Laceration 88
3. Bengali Cinema: A Spectral Subnationality 125
Part II. The Return of the Repressed
4. Dispersed Nodes of Articulation 169
5. Ghatak, Melodrama, and the Restitution of Experience 200
6. Tamas and the Limits of Representation 230
7. Mourning (Un)limited 259
Coda: The Critical Enchantment of Mourning 299
Notes 305
Bibliography 343
Index 365
Introduction: National Cinema's Hermeneutic of Mourning 1
Part I. A Resonant Silence
1. Cinema's Project of Nationhood 47
2. Runes of Laceration 88
3. Bengali Cinema: A Spectral Subnationality 125
Part II. The Return of the Repressed
4. Dispersed Nodes of Articulation 169
5. Ghatak, Melodrama, and the Restitution of Experience 200
6. Tamas and the Limits of Representation 230
7. Mourning (Un)limited 259
Coda: The Critical Enchantment of Mourning 299
Notes 305
Bibliography 343
Index 365
