Identity, Nationhood and Bangladesh Independent Cinema

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Notes
	References
1. Nationhood, Identity and Independent Cinema
	Nationhood and Identity
	Representation and Identity
	Discourses on Independent Film: Global and Bangladeshi
	Film Narratology
	References
2. Identity Approaches of Bengali Muslims
	Bengal before the Muslim Conquest
	Bengal under Muslim Rule
	Interregnum: The British Imperialism and Movement of Pakistan State
	Language Movement and Emergence of Bangladesh
	Bengaliness as a Way of Being
	The Rise of Muslimness
		Islamic Revivalist Movement
		British Policy
		Hindu Chauvinism
	Popular Religion: The Syncretic Identity Approach
		Tantric Buddhism, Sufism and Vaishnavism
	Post-Independence Bangladesh: Two Major Identities in Conflict
	Transformation and Deterritorialisation
	Jihadist Islam
	Notes
	References
3. The Making of Independent Cinema in Bangladesh
	Early Influences
	First Phase (1984-1992): Early Short Films
		Early Characteristics
		Some Limitations of Early Independent Films
	Second Phase (1993-1999): Thrust to Transformation
		Industrial Cutting Edge
		We were Forced to be Independent
	Third Phase (2000-2010): New Challenges and Opportunities
		Corporate Electronic Media as Parallel Industry
		Local Entrepreneur as Producer
		Digital Filmmaking in the 2000s
		Diverse Survival Strategies
	Fourth Phase (2011-2018): Going Global
	Documentary in a Different Note
	Government, Censorship and Independent Cinema
	Notes
	References
4. Textual Analysis: Foundational Films
	Kittonkhola: Struggle with Identity in the Rural Bengal
	Histoire
	Recit
		A Tale of the Transformation of Identity
		Portrayal of the Power Structure of Peripheral Bengal
		Behula or Manasa: Feminine Dichotomy
		Narration
	A Tree Without Roots: Portrayal of Muslimness of a Peasant Society
	Lalsalu and Syed Waliullah
	Histoire
	Recit
		A Fatalistic Society
		Manufacturing Fear
		Women: Victim, Labourer and Rebellious
		Anti-Islamic Text?
	Narration
	Dollhouse: Love in the Time of War
	Histoire
	Recit
		War Victimises Woman
		War Can Confuse People
		Nationalist Narrative of Resistance
		A Dollhouse can be Built under Aggression
		Nature of Bengal: Additional Narrative
	Narration
	References
5. Textual Analysis: Transitional Films
	The Clay Bird: Plurality of Identity of Bangladesh
	Histoire
	Recit
		Constructing Identity: Bengaliness, Muslimness and Popular Religion
		The Clay Bird Symbolises Freedom
		Representing Cultural Diversity
	Narration
	Meherjaan: Challenge to the Grand Narrative of Liberation War
	Histoire
	Recit
		An Absurd Affair?
		Can a Birangana Speak?
		Nationalist Jingoism and Moral Policing
		An Untimely Deconstruction?
		Is \'Loving the Other\' Possible?
	Narration
	Television: Religion\'s Negotiation with Modernity
	Histoire
	Recit
		Television as a Vehicle of Imag(e)ination
		A Conflict between Zealotry and Modernity?
		Religious Sense and Sensibility
		Love in the Time of Religious Bigotry
	Narration
	References
6. Textual Analysis: Contemporary Films
	A Runway: Profiling Terror Network in Bangladesh
	Histoire
	Recit
		Dealing with Jihadist Islam
		Geneology of a \'Jongi\'
		Class Exploitations Everywhere
	Narration
	B Ant Story: Globalised Man\'s Descent into Madness
	Histoire
	Recit
		Psychoanalysis
		Contemporary Bangladesh
	Narration
	C Under Construction: A Document of Time and Space under Construction
	Histoire
	Recit
	Narration
	D My Bicycle: Changing Indigenous Life on the Advent of Modernity
	Histoire
	Recit
		A Historiography of Indigenous People
		Depiction of an Ethnic Identity and Culture
		Advent of Modernity and a Changing Society
		Military and the Censorship Fiasco
	Narration
	References
7. Representing Identity through Cinema
	Bengaliness and Muslimness as Conflicting Identities
	Bengaliness as the Preferred Identity Approach
	Popular Religion in the Selected Films and the Greater Identity Questions
	Bangladesh Society in Transition and Deterritorialisation
	Women in the Identity Politics: Victim, Labourer and Rebel
	Class as a Component in Identity Politics
	\'Oriental\'s Orientalism\': Re-reading the Case for Independent Films in Bangladesh
	Independent Cinema as a Cultural Institution: It\'s Influence in Constructing Identity
	Notes
	References
Conclusion
	References
Index