{"product_id":"popular-cinema-in-bengal-madhuja-mukherjee-9780367330828","title":"Popular Cinema in Bengal: Genre, Stars, Public Cultures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePopular Cinema in Bengal\u003c\/em\u003e marks a decisive turn in studies of Bengali language cinema by shifting the focus from auteur and text-based studies to exhaustive readings of the film industry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book covers a wide range of themes and issues, including: generic tropes (like comedy and action); iconic figurations (of the detective and the city); (female) stars such as Kanan Bala, Sadhana Bose and Aparna Sen; intensities of public debates (subjects of high and low cultures, taste, viewership, gender and sexuality); print cultures (including posters, magazines and song-booklets); cinematic spaces; and trans-media and trans-cultural traffic. By locating cinema within the crosscurrents of geo-political transformations, the book highlights the new and persuasive research that has materialised over the last decade. The authors raise pertinent questions regarding 'regional' cinema as a category, in relation to 'national' cinema models, and trace the non-linear journey of the popular via multiple (media) trajectories. They address subjects of physicality, sexuality and its representations, industrial change, spaces of consumption, and cinema's meandering directions through global circuits and low-end networks. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighlighting the ever-changing contours of cinema in Bengal in all its popular forms and proposing a new historiography, \u003cem\u003ePopular Cinema in Bengal\u003c\/em\u003e will be of great interest to scholars of film studies and South-Asian popular culture. The chapters were originally published in the journal \u003cem\u003eSouth Asian History and Culture\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Madhuja Mukherjee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367330822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367330828\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.63d","brand":"Madhuja Mukherjee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48135997915391,"sku":"9780367330828","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0e5482e5-81c3-48d2-889c-721efe64906f.jpg?v=1770159830","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/popular-cinema-in-bengal-madhuja-mukherjee-9780367330828","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}