South Asian Filmscapes

Elora Halim Chowdhury is professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and author of Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing Against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh. Esha Niyogi De is a lecturer in English at UCLA and author of Empire, Media, and the Autonomous Woman: A Feminist Critique of Postcolonial Thought.

• Introduction. Transregional Archives, Cinematic Encounters: Filmscapes across South AsiaElora Halim Chowdhury and Esha Niyogi DePart I: Nations and Regional Margins1.) National Identity and Cinematic Representation: Independent Films in BangladeshFahmidul Haq2.) Female Friendship and Forbidden Desire: Two Films from 1960s PakistanKamran Asdar Ali3.) Bringing Back Sikhs after the 1984 Pogrom: The Politics of Picturization in Hindi CinemaAmit Ranjan4.) Silencing Films from the Chittagong Hill Tracts: Indigenous Cinema’s Challenge to the Imagined Cultural Homogeneity of BangladeshGlen Hill and Kabita Chakma5.) Pakistan, History, and Sleep: Hassan Tariq, a Progressive Patriarch, and NeendNasreen RehmanPart II: Transregional Crossings6.) The Public in the Cities: Detouring through Cinemas of Bombay, Calcutta, and Lahore (1920s–1930s)Madhuja Mukherjee7.) Cross-Wing Filmmaking: East Pakistani Urdu Films and Their Traces in the Bangladesh Film ArchiveLotte Hoek8.) Action Heroines and Regional Gifts: Authorship Crossing PakistanEsha Niyogi De9.) Realism and Region in South Indian Cinemas, 1947–1977Hariprasad Athanickal10.) "This Is London, Not Pakistan!": Articulations of the Diaspora in Pakistani Punjabi FilmGwendolyn S. Kirk11.) The Birth of a Cinema in Post-9/11 PakistanZebunnisa HamidPart III: Fractured Geographies, South Connectivities12.) Zahir Raihan's Stop Genocide (1971): A Dialectical Cinematic Message to the WorldFahmida Akhter13.) Gender, War, and Resistance: The Case of KashmirAlka Kurian14.) Cinema That Raises a Critical Consciousness: The Films of Alamgir KabirNaadir Junaid15.) Ethical Encounters: Friendship and Healing in Contemporary Films about the Bangladesh Liberation WarElora Halim ChowdhuryContributorsIndex