MARC details
| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
02468nam a22002177a 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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| control field |
JGU |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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| control field |
20240705093213.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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240705b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9788125040507 |
| Qualifying information |
pbk. |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
JGU |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Sarkar, Bhaskar, |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1661326 |
| Relator term |
author |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Mourning the nation : |
| Remainder of title |
Indian cinema in the wake of Partition / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Bhaskar Sarkar. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New Delhi : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Oriental Blackswan, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2010. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"The political truncation of 1947 led to a social cataclysm in which about a million perished and some twelve million became homeless. Combining film studies, trauma theory and South Asian cultural history, Bhaskar Sarkar follows the shifting traces of this event in Indian cinema of the next six decades. He argues that Partition remains a wound in the collective psyche of South Asia and its screen representations foster an affective historical consciousness that supplements standard history-writing. Tracking cinemas reluctance to deal with the Partition in the 1950s and 1960s and the eventual return of the repressed from the mid-1980s, Sarkar draws attention to a gradual and complex process of cultural mourning. Even the initial silence was never complete, not only because of atypical Partition films such as Lahore, Apna Desh and Ritwik Ghataks trilogy, but also because the trauma frequently surfaced in indirect, allegorical forms. He points to the split families, mutilated bodies, amnesiac protagonists and foundlings of Adalat, Waqt and Deedar; the melancholic sensibility and style of Aag or Amar; and the obsessive search for happiness in the romantic films starring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen. Sarkar relates the recent proliferation of films about Partition and its aftermath, including Tamas, Gadar, Border and Naseem, to a rising disillusionment with the postcolonial state, the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, economic liberalisation and the emergence of a Hindu-chauvinist nationalism. Covering Hindi and Bengali commercial cinema, art cinema and television, Mourning the Nation provides a striking history of Indian cinema that will be of interest not only to specialists of media, literature and cultural history, but also to lay readers with an investment in the psychobiography of the nation."-- |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Motion pictures--India. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1663565 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
India--History--Partition, 1947. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
403734 |
