South Asia in Alternative Cinema(s) (Hardcover, 1)

Introduction?PART I: Alternative Cinema(s)?1.?Minor Avant-gardists in the 1970s-1980s: History of Alternate Cinema Movement in Kerala?2.?Remoulding the Alternative: Style and Aesthetics of Contemporary Alternative Indian Cinemas?3.?M. S. Satyu’s?Ijjodu: A Visual Encounter between Tradition and Modernity?4.?Foregrounding the Reading and the Writing Process: Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukhtankar’s Marathi film?Samhita?PART II: Contestations: Nation, Culture and Identity?5.?Of Homogenous Temporality and Dissonant Spaces: Demarcating a Space for Kannada in/vis-a-vis India in Kannada Parallel Films?6.?Remapping Calcutta: Old media / New media, neighbourhoods, and alternative Cartographies of the City?7.?Chetan Anand’s?Neecha Nagar: Reconfiguring the City through Struggle and Resilience?8.?Alternative Modes of Perception: A Reading of Perceptual Divide between Blind and Sighted Worlds in?Sparsh?PART III:?Gender and Sexuality?9.?Discourses on Pakistan’s Screen: An Alternate Space of Cultural Production And (Re)Evaluating? Meaning Around Religious Text?10.?Relocating the Gaze: Through the Lens of Deepa?Mehta?11.?The?Namkeen?Women: Locating Gender in Gulzar’s Film Narratives?12.?Son Preference! A Historical Legacy or Socio-Economic Compulsion: A Cinematic Approach?13.?The Cultural Amnesia: A Dialogue between Livelihood and?Taboo?PART IV:?Auteurs, Authors and Film Adaptations?14.?Reading Satyajit Ray’s?Pather Panchali: Discovering the Existential Strain?15.?Towards Self-reliant womanhood in Satyajit Ray’s?Charulata?16.?Re-Contextualizing and Adapting The Canon: The Example Of Aparna Sen’s?Ghawre Bairey Aaj?(2019)?17.?Caste, Crying and Cinema: Engendering a Subaltern Cinematic Aesthetics through Adaptation?18.?Troubled Love: Adaptations & Intertextuality?19.?From Words ta Images: Satyajit Ray’s Re-interpretation of Premchand’s?Sadgati?20.?Unravelling the question of ‘To be, or not to be’: A Comparative Analysis of?Hamlet?and?Haider?PART V:? Borders and Beyond?21.?Partition Cinema and its Narrative Trajectories?22.?Lives, Cameras and Actions: A Study of Select Works of Tibetan Exiled Filmmakers?23.?Buddhism in Bhutanese Cinema; Divine Portrayal of Femininity in Bhutanese Films