{"product_id":"lahore-cinema-between-realism-and-fable-paperback","title":"Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIftikhar Dadi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eK. Sivaramakrishnan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAnand A. Yang\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA pioneering analysis of exemplary feature films\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eCommercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 and 1969--the long sixties--in Lahore, Pakistan, following the 1947 Partition of South Asia. These films drew freely from Bengali performance traditions, Hindu mythology, Parsi theater, Sufi conceptions of the self, Urdu lyric poetry, and Hollywood musicals, bringing these traditions into dialogue with melodrama and neorealism. Examining this layered context offers insights into a period of rapid modernization and into cultural affiliation in the South Asian present, when frameworks of multiplicity and plurality are in jeopardy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLahore Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e probes the role of language, rhetoric, lyric, and form in the making of cinematic meaning as well as the relevance of the Urdu cultural universe to midcentury Bombay filmmaking. Challenging the assumption of popular cinema as apolitical, Dadi explores how films allowed their audiences to navigate an accelerating modernity and tense politics by anchoring social change across the terrain of deeper cultural imaginaries. By constituting publics beyond social divides of regional, ethnic, and sectarian affiliations, commercial cinema played an influential progressive role during the mid- and later twentieth century in South Asia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLahore Cinema \u003c\/i\u003eis freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of Cornell University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDOI: 10.6069\/9780295750804\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eIftikhar Dadi\u003c\/b\u003e is John H. Burris Professor in History of Art at Cornell University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eModernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eLines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52611818029363,"sku":"9780295750811","price":66.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/bGs3TFZOc1Zod3BhNUFkdmhQL2lTdz09.webp?v=1761836118","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/lahore-cinema-between-realism-and-fable-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}