Bengali Cinema An Other Nation 1st Edition by Sharmistha Gooptu ISBN 9780203843345 0203843347

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ISBN 10: 0203843347
ISBN 13: 9780203843345
Author: Sharmistha Gooptu

Bengali Cinema An Other Nation 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 The idea of a ‘Bengali’ cinema

Cinema and the idea of modernity

Films: a window to the world, a new art form

Bengal’s silent cinema, and the early talkies

The inferiority of Indian films and the call for film art

The bhadralok’s model for film practice

Cinema: Bengal’s new cultural project

2 Bengal and a ‘national’ cinema: New Theatres Ltd.

The coming of the talkie and the creation of the ‘all-India’ and ‘Bengali’ markets

The talkies: a new profession

Birendranath Sircar and New Theatres Ltd.

Initiating a ‘Bengali’ cinema: Rami and Chandidas

Devdas

Prestige projects and the making of film art

Urdu films, double versions, stars and musical numbers: New Theatres and the ‘all-India’ market

‘Professionalism’ and the ‘non-professional’: the idea of ‘NT’

Bengali concern, a Bengali lead

Appendix

Other Bengal (Calcutta) studios of the talkie era

Shree Bharat Lakshmi Pictures

East India Film Company

Radha Film Company

Indra Movietone

3 The transition to a ‘regional’ cinema

The Bengal film industry at the beginning of the 1940s

The 1940s Bengal cinema: ‘national’ or ‘regional’?

War and the first setback

Partition and loss of the East Bengal market

The ‘all-India’ film

Towards a ‘regional’ cinema

A Bengali public and a ‘Bengali’ cinema

Bombay’s Bengali life

4 Bengali love stories

The 1950s and Uttam–Suchitra

The black-and-white world of Uttam–Suchitra

Sare Chuattar to Saptapadi: a new hero and heroine and the new text of the 1950s Bengali film

Uttam Kumar: transition from ‘picture personality’ to the star

A ‘Bengali’ icon: the star text of Uttam Kumar Chatterjee

‘Mrs. Sen’ of Calcutta and ‘Babes’ of Bombay: Uttam–Suchitra versus Raj Kapoor and Nargis

The ‘all-India’ film and a ‘Bengali’ cinema

5 Common man’s comedy

The funny man from the other side: Bhanu the bangal

Common man Bhanu

The star without glamour

6 Satyajit Ray and the Bengali cinema

On the way to becoming a famous film-maker

Signifying to a Bengali public

With an eye to the box office

Ray’s ‘hero’ and the romantic couple in Apur Sansar

Ray and the Bengali cinema

Ray and a Bengali public

7 Changing context, new texts

The 1960s and 1970s Bengali cinema: old genres and some new trends

Bhadralok loafer and shikkita bekar, middle-class prostitution, and a new face of Bengali films

The texts of the 1980s Bengali cinema

Epilogue

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Journals

Newspapers and Magazines

Official Documents

Private Papers

Miscellaneous Publications

Dissertations and Unpublished Papers

Websites

Select Books and Articles

Index

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