[Commlist] South Asian Filmscapes: Transregional Encounters edited by Elora Halim Chowdhury & Esha Niyogi De

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of 
Washington Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*South Asian Filmscapes***

Transregional Encounters

*Edited by Elora Halim Chowdhury & Esha Niyogi De***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780295747859/south-asian-filmscapes/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780295747859/south-asian-filmscapes/>_*

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*CSLS2021*

In South Asia massive anticolonial movements in the twentieth century 
created nation-states and reset national borders, forming the basis for 
emerging film cultures. Following the upheaval of the partition of India 
and Pakistan in 1947 and the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, new 
national cinemas promoted and reinforced prevailing hierarches of 
identity and belonging. At the same time, industrial and independent 
cinemas contributed to remarkably porous and hybrid film cultures, 
reflecting the intertwining of South Asian histories and their 
reciprocal cultural influences. This cross-fertilization within South 
Asian cultural production continues today.*__*

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/South Asian Filmscapes/ excavates these complex politics and poetics of 
bordered identity and crossings through selected histories of cinema in 
South Asia. Several essays reveal ways in which fixed notions of 
national identity have been destabilized by the cross-border mobility of 
filmed arts and practitioners, while others interrogate how filmic 
politics intersects with discourses of nationalism, sexuality and 
gender, religion, and language. Together, they offer a fluid approach to 
the multiple histories and encounters that conjure “South Asia” as a 
geographic and political entity in the region and globally through a 
cinematic imagination.*__*

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*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./*__*

*University of Washington Press**| November 2020 | 336pp | 9780295747859 
| PB | £26.99**

*Price subject to change.

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