MARC details
| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
02551cam a22002778i 4500 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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| control field |
20231120020021.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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| fixed length control field |
210327s2022 nyu b 001 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780231201056 |
| Qualifying information |
pbk. |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
JGU |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Majumdar, Rochona, |
| Relator term |
author |
| 9 (RLIN) |
31542 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Art cinema and India's forgotten futures : |
| Remainder of title |
film and history in the postcolony / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Rochona Majumdar. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Columbia University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2021. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"In the years following Indian independence in 1947, art cinema was seen as central to the development and future of the new nation. Filmmakers like Satyajit Ray came to the fore as did a host of film societies and publications aimed at promoting a new kind of film culture that would offer a distinct alternative to the popular movies coming out of Bombay. Indian art film would not only bring the new nation international prestige but would create responsible and discerning individuals capable of exercising and combining aesthetic and political judgments. Good films, it was believed, could produce good citizens. However, as Rochona Majumdar argues, the liberal faith of progress championed by Indian elites in the 1950s and early 1960s would soon unravel as the promises of postcolonial development, justice, and prosperity receded, giving rise to civil unrest and political violence. Rather than promoting a progressive view of history, the three leading Indian filmmakers of the period - Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak, and Satyajit Ray -- communicated a sense of a postcolonial present characterized by multiple contradictory possibilities. Ray, Sen, and Ghatak's disillusionment from their prior commitment to filmmaking as integral to the development of India anticipated a new way of conceiving ideas of postcolonial history and time that anticipated later works by historians and theorists. Ultimately, these three filmmakers stand out for acknowledging that the postcolonial consensus was in disarray, and with it art cinema's previous certainty about its pedagogic, political, and historic purpose"-- |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Ghatak, Ritwikkumar |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Sen, Mrinal |
| 9 (RLIN) |
93537 |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Ray, Satyajit |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
New wave films |
| Geographic subdivision |
India |
| General subdivision |
History and criticism. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
848982 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Postcolonialism in motion pictures. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
732076 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Motion picture producers and directors |
| Geographic subdivision |
India. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
29352 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Motion pictures |
| Geographic subdivision |
India |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
347128 |
