CLASS, POWER AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN INDIAN CINEMA AND TELEVISION, ANIRUDH DESHPANDE (2009) Delhi: Primus Books, 169 pp., ISBN 978-81-908918-2-0, Hardback (1st ed.), Rs 595 MOURNING THE NATION: INDIAN CINEMA IN THE WAKE OF PARTITION, BHASKAR SARKAR (2009) Durham: Duke University Press, 384 pp., ISBN- 10 0822343932, Hardback, $94.25, ISBN – 13 978-0822344117, Paperback, $24.95 INDIAN CINEMA IN THE TIME OF CELLULOID: FROM BOLLYWOOD TO THE EMERGENCY, ASHISH RAJADHYAKSHA (2009) New Delhi: Tulika Books, 441 pp., ISBN: 978-81-89487-52-2, Hardback, $75.00 EMOTION PICTURES: CINEMATIC JOURNEYS INTO THE INDIAN SELF, NARENDRA PANJWANI (2006) Ahmedabad: Rainbow Publishers. 296 pp., ISBN: 81-86962-72-7, Hardback, $40/Rs. 1200 FROM RAJAHS AND YOGIS TO GANDHI AND BEYOND: IMAGES OF INDIA IN INTERNATIONAL FILMS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, VIJAYA MULAY (2010) Calcutta: Seagull Books, 554 pp., ISBN 978-1905422951, $109.95
During the 1930s, one of the significant factors that strengthened the connection between Bengali literature and film was the emergence of certain key figures who straddled overlapping roles as author–screenwriter–director, frequently adapting their own literary works and reframing the contentious ‘authorship issue’ that arises between writer and filmmaker. By focusing on three such figures—Premankur Atorthy (1890–1964), Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay (1901–1976) and Premendra Mitra (1904–1988)—this essay examines the manner in which self-adaptations served to transfer the power of the literary author to the nascent cinematic auteur, particularly through the intermediary process of screenwriting. The essay also draws attention to the practice of film novelisations that was mobilised since the mid-1940s by Mitra and others like Jyotirmoy Roy and Panchugopal Mukhopadhyay, where novels were written based on cinematic works, akin to French cinéromans and contrary to ‘authorless’ novelisations by ghostwriters. In subsequent years, film novels were written by director Hemen Gupta, writers Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, Shaktipada Rajguru and Kalkut, which brings to light a largely unexplored dimension of the relationship between Bengali film and literature.
REEL WORLD: AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF CREATION, ANAND PANDIAN (2015) Durham and London: Duke University Press, 339 pp., ISBN: 9780822360001, p/bk, $35.99 OUTSIDE THE LETTERED CITY: CINEMA, MODERNITY, & THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN LATE COLONIAL INDIA, MANISHITA DASS (2016) New York: Oxford University Press, 248 pp., ISBN: 9780199394395, p/bk, $29.95 BOLLYWOOD’S INDIA: A PUBLIC FANTASY, PRIYA JOSHI (2015) New York and Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 191 pp., ISBN: 9780231169615, p/bk, $27.75 CHANNELING CULTURES: TELEVISION STUDIES FROM INDIA, BISWARUP SEN AND ABHIJIT ROY (EDS) (2014) Delhi: Oxford University Press, 319 pp., ISBN: 9780198092056, h/bk, 895.00 INR A FLY IN THE CURRY, K. P. JAYASANKAR AND ANJALI MONTEIRO (2016) New Delhi: Sage Publications, 256 pp., ISBN: 9789351505693, p/bk, $20 ADVERTISING DIVERSITY: AD AGENCIES AND THE CREATION OF ASIAN AMERICAN CONSUMERS, SHALINI SHANKAR (2015) Durham and London: Duke University Press, 328 pp., ISBN: 9780822358770, p/bk, $26.95 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY BOLLYWOOD, AJAY GEHLAWAT (2015) New York: Routledge, 156 pp., ISBN: 9781138793606, h/bk, $125.80
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