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dc.contributor.authorDadi, Iftikhar
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-16T08:13:11Z
dc.date.available2023-08-16T08:13:11Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75535
dc.description.abstractCommercial 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. Lahore Cinema 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. Lahore Cinema is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of Cornell University. DOI: 10.6069/9780295750804en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGlobal South Asiaen_US
dc.subject.otherFilm history, theory and criticism;Asian historyen_US
dc.titleLahore Cinemaen_US
dc.title.alternativeBetween Realism and Fableen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.6069/9780295750804en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBybf4ecffe-ae79-41c6-a4b1-18e7b7aac1b9en_US
oapen.relation.isFundedByCornell Universityen_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780295750798en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780295750811en_US
oapen.collectionToward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)en_US
oapen.pages266en_US
oapen.place.publicationSeattleen_US
oapen.grant.programTOME


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