ReFocus: The Films of Shyam Benegal

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Edited by Sneha Kar Chaudhuri, West Bengal State University, Ramit Samaddar, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: November 2023
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781474452885

Series:: ReFocus: The International Directors Series
Subjects:: Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication

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Shyam Benegal is widely perceived as one of the most influential Indian filmmakers, yet his voluminous body of work remains relatively under-studied in contemporary film scholarship.

To help fill this critical lacuna, ReFocus: The Films of Shyam Benegal undertakes a closer look at Benegal's films, a trailblazing auteur who successfully redefined the contours of non-commercial Hindi language cinema. This addition to ReFocus: The International Directors Series will consider how Benegal, over the course of his forty year career, used cinema as a potent medium to narrate the story of a nation in continuous transition.

The thirteen essays in the volume will explore how Benegal's films articulate his concerns over caste, class, gender, religion, and other allied social, economic and political problems characterizing the Indian subcontinent. This collection also includes a full-length interview with Shyam Benegal that investigates his perspectives on the art of film-making.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures
pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors
pp ix-xiii

Acknowledgements
pp xiv-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-11

Chapter 1 - Ankur: Multiple Narratives of Protest
pp 12-28

Chapter 2 - Nishant and the New Dawn: Towards a Sacerdotal–Secular Modernity?
pp 29-47

Chapter 3 - Churning Out Change: A Moment of Reading Manthan
pp 48-63

Chapter 4 - Where Labour is Performed: The Public/Private Dichotomy and the Politics of Stigma in Bhumika and Mandi
pp 64-82

Chapter 5 - Adaptation and Epistemic Redress: The Indian Uprising in Junoon
pp 83-99

Chapter 6 - Cause and Kin: Knowledge and Nationhood in Kalyug
pp 100-117

Chapter 7 - The Ascent in Arohan
pp 118-134

Chapter 8 - From Fidelity to Creativity: Benegal and Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda
pp 135-153

Chapter 9 - Mammo and Projections of the Muslim Woman: Indian Parallel Cinema, Partition and Belonging
pp 154-170

Chapter 10 - Adapting Gandhi/Kasturba in The Making of the Mahatma
pp 171-184

Chapter 11 - In Search of Zubeidaa
pp 185-195

Chapter 12 - Subversive Heroism and the Politics of Biopic Adaptation in Bose: The Forgotten Hero
pp 196-207

Chapter 13 - The Rural in the Glocal Intersection: Representation of Space in Welcome to Sajjanpur and Well Done Abba
pp 208-222

Chapter 14 - Shyam Benegal in Conversation
pp 223-243

Index
pp 244-255

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