Cinema and the Indian National Emergency
Histories and Afterlives
Cinema and the Indian National Emergency
Histories and Afterlives
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Description
The Indian National Emergency of 1975 to 1977, saw the suspension of civil liberties, increasing censorship, and extra-judicial state control. It is recognised as one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of postcolonial India, and its socio-political consequences have been exhaustively studied. Despite this, the profound cinematic implications of this event have remained relatively unexplored.
This book examines the strained relationship between the state and the Indian film industry during this 21 month period of political upheaval. Each of the essays, written from a broad range of critical perspectives, consider the various modes of state suppression adopted, from increasing levels of film censorship to police surveillance of film productions and exhibitions.
Contributors analyse controversial films such as Aandhi (1975) and Nasbandi (1978), which were banned for the duration of the Emergency, and overtly political films such as Kissa Kursi Ka (1977), the prints of which were permanently confiscated owing to the film's criticisms of the state. They also consider the political and aesthetic dilemmas of state-sponsored films such as Ashadh Ka Ek Din (1971), which was made to be explicitly apolitical and came to be known as a key work of New Indian Cinema.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Institutional History, Cine-Politics and the Dictatorial
1. Indira Gandhi and Indian Cinema - M. Madhava Prasad (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India)
2. New Cinema, The Film Finance Corporation (FFC) and National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) , and the Emergency - Sudha Tiwari (School of Liberal Studies, UPES, Dehradun, India)
3. A Patron and a Tyrant: Film Society Movement and State Patronage - Amrit Gangar (independent scholar, film curator, India)
Part II: Media, Propaganda, Censorship
1. The Emergency and Its Media Afterlife - Ranjani Mazumdar (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)
2. A Medium Besieged - Someswar Bhowmik (St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India)
3. Traces and Counter-Traces: The Emergency Films of S. Sukhdev - Veena Hariharan (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)
Part III: Archiving the Dictatorial
1. The Emergency and the Everyday: Curating the Ordinary in Catastrophic Time - Ashish Rajadhyaksha (Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bengaluru, India):
2. The Event and the Archive - Vinayak Das Gupta (Shiv Nadar University, Noida, India)
Part IV: Films and Afterlives of the Dictatorial
1. In Defense of a Not-So-Political Cinema - Parichay Patra (Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India)
2.“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”: the populism of the 1980s Hindi Cinema and the Emergency's after text - Dibyakusum Ray (Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India)
3. The Long 1970s - Kaushik Bhaumik (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 01 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781350371132 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 30 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | World Cinema |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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