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The first edited collection of essays dedicated to Shyam Benegal's career and films
Offers in-depth scholarship on Indian parallel, or new wave, cinema
Provides cultural contexts for Benegal's films, including representations of gender, class, and caste
Can be used in academic courses dealing with Bollywood, gender politics, subaltern studies, media studies, adaptation, and postcolonialism
Shyam Benegal is widely perceived as one of the most influential Indian filmmakers, yet his voluminous body of work remains relatively under-studied in contemporary film scholarship.
To help fill this critical lacuna, ReFocus: The Films of Shyam Benegal undertakes a closer look at Benegal's films, a trailblazing auteur who successfully redefined the contours of non-commercial Hindi language cinema. This addition to ReFocus: The International Directors Series will consider how Benegal, over the course of his forty year career, used cinema as a potent medium to narrate the story of a nation in continuous transition.
The 13 essays in the volume will explore how Benegal's films articulate his concerns over caste, class, gender, religion, and other allied social, economic and political problems characterizing the Indian subcontinent. This collection also includes a full-length interview with Shyam Benegal that investigates his perspectives on the art of film-making.
Contents
Introduction - Sneha Kar Chaudhuri and Ramit Samaddar
Ankur: Multiple Narratives of Protest - Sarani Ghosal
Nishant and the New Dawn: Towards a Sacredotal-Secular Modernity? - Nikhila H
Churning Out Change: A Moment of Reading Manthan - Ritu Sen Chaudhuri
Where Labour is Performed: The Public/Private Dichotomy and the Politics of Stigma in Bhumika and Mandi - Suchitra Mathur
Adaptation and Epistemic Redress: The Indian Uprising in Junoon - Ana Cristina Mendes
Cause and Kin: Knowledge and Nationhood in Kalyug - Somak Mukherjee
The Ascent in Arohan - Parthapratim Sen and Arunima Ray (Chowdhury)
From Fidelity to Creativity: Benegal and Suraj Ka Satvan Ghora - Sudha Shastri
Mammo and Projections of the Muslim Woman: Indian Parallel Cinema, Partition and Belonging - Omar Ahmed
Adapting Gandhi/Kasturba in The Making of the Mahatma - Vivek Sachdeva
In Search of Zubeidaa - Ramit Samaddar
Subversive Heroism and the Politics of Biopic Adaptation in Bose: The Forgotten Hero - Sneha Kar Chaudhuri
The Rural in the Glocal Intersection: Representation of Space in Welcome toSajjanpur and Well Done Abba - Aysha Iqbal and Sayanty Chatterjee
Interview with Shyam Benegal - Anuradha Dingwaney Needham
