Bangladesh Cinema And National Identity

Author : Zakir Hossain Raju
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317601814

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Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity by Zakir Hossain Raju Pdf

Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, cinema has been adopted as a popular cultural institution in Bangladesh. At the same time, this has been the period for the articulation of modern nationhood and cultural identity of Bengali Muslims in Bangladesh. This book analyses the relationship between cinema and modernity in Bangladesh, providing a narrative of the uneven process that produced the idea of "Bangladesh cinema." This book investigates the roles of a non-Western "national" film industry in Asia in constructing nationhood and identity within colonial and postcolonial predicaments. Drawing on the idea of cinema as public sphere and the postcolonial notion of formation of the "Bangladesh" nation, interactions between cinema and middle-class Bengali Muslims in different social and political matrices are analyzed. The author explores how the conflict among different social groups turned Bangladesh cinema into a site of contesting identities. In particular, he illustrates the connections between film production and reception in Bangladesh and a variety of nationalist constructions of Bengali Muslim identity. Questioning and debunking the usual notions of "Bangladesh" and "cinema," this book positions the cinema of Bangladesh within a transnational frame. Starting with how to locate the "beginning" of the second Bengali language cinema in colonial Bengal, the author completes the investigation by identifying a global Bangladeshi cinema in the early twenty-first century. The first major academic study on this large and vibrant national cinema, this book demonstrates that Bangladesh cinema worked as different "public spheres" for different "publics" throughout the twentieth century and beyond. Filling a niche in Global Film and Media Studies and South Asian Studies, it will be of interest to scholars and students of these disciplines.

Author : Fahmidul Haq,Brian Shoesmith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000605648

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Identity, Nationhood and Bangladesh Independent Cinema by Fahmidul Haq,Brian Shoesmith Pdf

This book analyses how independent filmmakers from Bangladesh have represented national identity in their films. The focus of this book is on independent and art house filmmakers and how cinema plays a vital role in constructing national and cultural identity. The authors examine post-2000 films which predominantly deal with issues of national identity and demonstrate how they tackle questions of national identity. Bangladesh is seemingly a homogenous country consisting 98% of Bengali and 90% of Muslim. This majority group has two dominant identities – Bengaliness (the ethno-linguistic identity) and Muslimness (the religious identity). Bengaliness is perceived as secular-modern whereas Muslimness is perceived as traditional and conservative. However, Bangladeshi independent and art house filmmakers portray the nationhood of the country with an enthusiasm and liveliness that exceeds these two categories. In addition to these categories, the authors add two more dimensions to the approach to discuss identity: Popular Religion and Transformation. The study argues that these identity categories are represented in the films, and that they both reproduce and challenge dominant discourses of nationalism. Providing a new addition to the discourse of contemporary national identity, the book will be of interest to researchers studying international film and media studies, independent cinema studies, Asian cinema, and South Asian culture, politics, and identity politics.

Author : Subho Basu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009329873

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Intimation of Revolution by Subho Basu Pdf

Studies the rise of Bengali nationalism in East Pakistan in the 1950s and 60s by showcasing the interactions between global politics and local social and economic developments.

Author : Harisur Rahman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030317072

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Consuming Cultural Hegemony by Harisur Rahman Pdf

This book examines the circulation and viewership of Bollywood films and filmi modernity in Bangladesh. The writer poses a number of fundamental questions: what it means to be a Bangladeshi in South Asia, what it means to be a Bangladeshi fan of Hindi film, and how popular film reflects power relations in South Asia. The writer argues that partition has resulted in India holding hegemonic power over all of South Asia’s nation-states at the political, economic, and military levels–a situation that has made possible its cultural hegemony. The book draws on relevant literature from anthropology, sociology, film, media, communication, and cultural studies to explore the concepts of hegemony, circulation, viewership, cultural taste, and South Asian cultural history and politics.

Author : Elora Halim Chowdhury,Esha Niyogi De
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780295747866

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South Asian Filmscapes by Elora Halim Chowdhury,Esha Niyogi De Pdf

In South Asia massive anticolonial movements in the twentieth century created nation-states and reset national borders, forming the basis for emerging film cultures. Following the upheaval of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, new national cinemas promoted and reinforced prevailing hierarches of identity and belonging. At the same time, industrial and independent cinemas contributed to remarkably porous and hybrid film cultures, reflecting the intertwining of South Asian histories and their reciprocal cultural influences. This cross-fertilization within South Asian cultural production continues today. South Asian Filmscapes excavates these complex politics and poetics of bordered identity and crossings through selected histories of cinema in South Asia. Several essays reveal ways in which fixed notions of national identity have been destabilized by the cross-border mobility of filmed arts and practitioners, while others interrogate how filmic politics intersects with discourses of nationalism, sexuality and gender, religion, and language. Together, they offer a fluid approach to the multiple histories and encounters that conjure “South Asia” as a geographic and political entity in the region and globally through a cinematic imagination.

Author : Habibul Khondker,Olav Muurlink,Asif Bin Ali
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811655210

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The Emergence of Bangladesh by Habibul Khondker,Olav Muurlink,Asif Bin Ali Pdf

The Emergence of Bangladesh analyses and celebrates the first 50 years of Bangladesh as a nation, bringing insights from key scholars in Bangladeshi studies to an international audience, as well as ‘bringing home’ to a domestic audience the work of some of the nation’s greatest intellectual exports, the Bangladeshi scholars who have made a mark in their field of study in academia. The book offers unique coverage of the battlegrounds on which the founding of the new nation was fought, including language, power and religion, and provides unique insight into some of the hot spots that continue to shape the development of the nation: the issues of gender, culture, ethnicity, governance, the economy and the army. Those with an interest in understanding the past or present Bangladesh will find this a trove of frank and readable analysis.

Author : Sanjukta Sunderason,Lotte Hoek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350179196

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Forms of the Left in Postcolonial South Asia by Sanjukta Sunderason,Lotte Hoek Pdf

This book explores the aesthetic forms of the political left across the borders of post-colonial, post-partition South Asia. Spanning India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the contributors study art, film, literature, poetry and cultural discourse to illuminate the ways in which political commitment has been given aesthetic form and artistic value by artists and by cultural and political activists in postcolonial South Asia. With a focused conceptualization this volume asks: Does the political left in South Asia have a recognizable aesthetic form? And if so, what political effects do left-wing artistic movements and aesthetic artefacts have in shaping movements against inequality and injustice? Reframing political aesthetics within a postcolonial and decolonised framework, the contributors detail the trajectories and transformations of left-wing cultural formations and affiliations and focus on connections and continuities across post-1947/8 India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Author : Ahmed Saifuddin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bangladesh
ISBN : 9517650310

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The Roles of Religion and National Identity in Bangladesh by Ahmed Saifuddin Pdf

Author : Anjali Gera Roy,Chua Beng Huat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199088621

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Travels of Bollywood Cinema by Anjali Gera Roy,Chua Beng Huat Pdf

From Bombay (Mumbai) and other production centres on the Indian subcontinent, Indian popular cinema has travelled globally for nearly a century, culminating in the Bollywood-inspired, Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. This volume brings together perspectives on Indian popular cinema, universally known as Bollywood now, from different disciplinary and geographical locations to look afresh at national cinemas. It shows how Bollywood cinema has always crossed borders and boundaries: from the British Malaya, Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad, Mauritius, and East and South Africa to the former USSR, West Asia, the UK, the USA, Canada, and Australia. While looking at the meanings of nation, diaspora, home, and identity in cinematic texts and contexts, the essays also examine how localities are produced in the new global process by broadly addressing nationalism, regionalism, and transnationalism, politics and aesthetics, as well as spectatorship and viewing contexts.

Author : Sasanka Perera,Dev Nath Pathak,Ravi Kumar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789388630245

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Against the Nation by Sasanka Perera,Dev Nath Pathak,Ravi Kumar Pdf

Against the Nation invites readers to explore South Asia as a place and as an idea with a sense of reflection and nuance rather than submitting to conventional understanding of the region merely in geopolitical terms. The authors take the readers across a vast terrain of prospects like visual culture, music, film, knowledge systems and classrooms, myth and history as well as forms of politics that offer possibilities for reading South Asia as a collective enterprise that has historical precedents as well as untapped ideological potential for the future.

Author : Arild Engelsen Ruud,Mubashar Hasan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811643149

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Masks of Authoritarianism by Arild Engelsen Ruud,Mubashar Hasan Pdf

​This edited book investigates how life is affected by the increasingly authoritarian regime in Bangladesh.Earlier a flawed but real electoral democracy, over the last several years Bangladesh has been characterised as a ‘hybrid regime’ in The Economist’s Democracy Index. Today it is a country in which law still rules and leaders are still chosen – but only on paper. The uniqueness of this book is not in defining regime type or investigating trajectories. It is in its efforts to study how these changes affect everyday life. All chapters are based on intimate knowledge of a field, on first-hand experience, and on interviews and ethnography. This book will interest political scientists and scholars of Bangladesh, the Islamic world and beyond, with findings of broad relevance to hybrid regimes.

Author : Jamal Malik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134107629

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Madrasas in South Asia by Jamal Malik Pdf

After 9/11, madrasas have been linked to international terrorism. They are suspected to foster anti-western, traditionalist or even fundamentalist views and to train al-Qaeda fighters. This has led to misconceptions on madrasa-education in general and its role in South Asia in particular. Government policies to modernize and ‘pacify’ madrasas have been precipitous and mostly inadequate. This book discusses the educational system of madrasas in South Asia. It gives a contextual account of different facets of madrasa education from historical, anthropological, theological, political and religious studies perspectives. Some contributions offer recommendations on possible – and necessary – reforms of religious educational institutions. It also explores the roots of militancy and sectarianism in Pakistan, as well as its global context. Overall, the book tries to correct misperceptions on the role of madrasas, by providing a more balanced discussion, which denies neither the shortcomings of religious educational institutions in South Asia nor their important contributions to mass education.

Author : Deana Heath,Chandana Mathur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136867873

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Communalism and Globalization in South Asia and Its Diaspora by Deana Heath,Chandana Mathur Pdf

Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of modernity, and that globalization is neither a unique nor unprecedented process, this book addresses the question of whether globalization has amplified or muted processes of communalism. It does so through exploring the concurrent histories of communalism and globalization in four South Asian contexts - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - as well as in various diasporic locations, from the nineteenth century to the present. Including contributions by some of the most notable scholars working on communalism in South Asia and its diaspora as well as by some challenging new voices, the book encompasses both different disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. It looks at a range of methodologies in an effort to stimulate new debates on the relationship between communalism and globalization, and is a useful contribution to studies on South Asia and Asian History.

Author : Youna Kim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135896447

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Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia by Youna Kim Pdf

This book explores people’s everyday experience of the media in Asian countries in confrontation with huge social change and transition and the need to understand this phenomenon as it intersects with the media. It argues for the centrality of the media to Asian transformations in the era of globalization. The profusion of the media today, with new imaginations, new choices and contradictions, generates a critical condition for reflexivity engaging everyday people to have a resource for the learning of self, culture and society in a new light. Media culture is creating new connections, new desires and threats, and the identities of people are being reworked at individual, national, regional and global levels. Within historically specific social conditions and contexts of the everyday, the chapters seek to provide a diversity of experiences and understandings of the place of the media in different Asian locations. This book considers the emerging consequences of media consumption in people’s everyday life at a time when the political, socio-economic and cultural forces by which the media operate are rapidly globalizing in Asia.

Author : Rajinder Kumar Dudrah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780415447409

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Bollywood Travels by Rajinder Kumar Dudrah Pdf

This title offers a cultural and social analysis of contemporary Bollywood films over the past decade, exploring the ideas of nation, race, religion, gender and sexuality, cinema and public spaces, diaspora and globalization.