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04314aam a2200553 i 4500 001 58E690E2DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 210327t20212021nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021002487 020 $a 0231201052 020 $a 9780231201056 020 $a 0231201044 020 $a 9780231201049 035 $a (OCoLC)1246675471 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d VP@ $d GUA $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a PN1993.5.I8 $b M346 2021 082 00 $a 791.430954 $2 23 100 1 $a Majumdar, Rochona, $e author. 245 10 $a Art cinema and India's forgotten futures : $b film and history in the postcolony / $c Rochona Majumdar. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a viii, 307 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Epilogue: Art cinema and our present. $t The "new" Indian cinema : journeys of the art film -- $t Debating radical cinema : film societies and art cinema -- $t Ritwik Ghatak and the overcoming of history -- $t "Anger and After" : Mrinal Sen's Calcutta trilogy -- $t An untimely filmmaker : the crisis of historicism in Satyajit Ray's city trilogy -- $t Epilogue: Art cinema and our present. 600 10 $a Ghatak, Ritwikkumar, $d 1925-1976. 600 10 $a Sen, Mrinal, $d 1923-2018. 600 10 $a Ray, Satyajit, $d 1921-1992. 600 17 $a Ghatak, Ritwikkumar, $d 1925-1976. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00116866 600 17 $a Ray, Satyajit, $d 1921-1992. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00048430 600 17 $a Sen, Mrinal, $d 1923-2018. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00022944 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a New wave films $z India $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Postcolonialism in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Motion picture producers and directors $z India. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $z India $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Motion picture producers and directors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027225 650 7 $a Motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027285 650 7 $a New wave films. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01036943 650 7 $a Postcolonialism in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01904327 651 7 $a India. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210276 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Majumdar, Rochona. $t Forgotten futures $d New York : Columbia University Press, [2022] $z 9780231553902 $w (DLC) 2021002488 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012746.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=58E690E2DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search