...Zakir Hossain Raju This article investigates the indigenization of cinema, from production to reception, within the broader social, political, and cultural domain of early- to mid-twentieth-century East Bengal/Pakistan. As an attempt to fill certain gaps in South Asian film studies, Raju’s essay...

...Laleen Jayamanne Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1992 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. Xn No. 1 (Spring 1992) Hunger For Images, Myths of Femininity in Sri Lankan Cinema 1947-1989 Laleen Jayamanne “Myth must be understood as ideological dy- images than before, though given...

...Salma Siddique Abstract This essay examines the missing national film archive of Pakistan against the politics of competing cultural memory. Sharing a common past yet existing in the shadows of the Indian film industry, cinema in Pakistan found itself in an unusual predicament after decolonization...

...Ziba Mir-Hosseini © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Negotiating the Forbidden: On Women and Sexual Love in Iranian Cinema Ziba Mir-Hosseini omen and sexual love are time-honored — but problematic — themes in Iranian cin- ema. Soon after the 1979 revolution...

...Pedram Partovi This essay investigates the place of cinema in the formulation and maintenance of an Iranian popular civil religion—reworking older ideas and practices largely taken from Islam to articulate with modern social and political change in Iran. Of particular interest is the theme...

...Babli Sinha This article studies the impact of the American cinema on British India in the early twentieth century. Cinema is a valuable lens with which to study the triangular relationship between the United States, Britain, and South Asia because American films were popular and controversial...

...Christopher Gow Contemporary World Cinema: Europe, Middle East, East Asia, South Asia Shohini Chaudhuri Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005 vii + 199 pp., $22.00 (paper) Duke University Press 2008 The Ottoman Balkans, 1750–  1830...

...Nandini Chandra This article depicts the closing of the distance between a rational public sphere and popular Hindi cinema in view of a spurt of youth-related Hindi films in the 2000s, especially Rang de basanti (2006). Rang de basanti is taken as the starting point for a discussion of the idea...

...Nelida Fuccaro Fuccaro’s article explores new geographies of leisure and consumption that emerged in Manama and in Bahrain’s oil camps in the first decades of oil development. New forms of public communication such as the press, printed materials, and cinema are used to explore urban spaces, actors...

...May Telmissany Cinema has been for many diasporic communities the privileged site of self-representation and sometimes of idealistic (re)construction of homeland. Over the past thirty years, Palestinian cinema has constituted a site for negotiation and circulation of values and behaviors that have...

...Malek Khouri Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs—the Iraqi Connection (2002), a film by the son of an Iraqi political exile living in Europe, was broadcast several times on prime-time television on the most popular Arab satellite television news channel, Al-Jazeera. As part of a budding new Arab cinema...

..., and it subjects visual texts ranging from mainstream commercial movies to independent cinema and photographic projects to closer analysis, through the assembly of infrastructure and aquatic elements. Combining textual analysis with accounts from divergent sources such as customs department personnel, distributors...

... called the dency of the post-WWII school of filmmaking   public sphere.2 The Habermasian public sphere, in Germany called new German cinema and, in suspended between the state and civil...

... of the Indian film industry. Functioning from Calcutta, it was not just a well-equipped studio; it was a sys- tem, a way of life for the people working with it. . . . Sircar wanted not just cinema halls and a stu- dio; he wanted a system. A pervasive, self-supporting...

... the postrevolutionary regime. Moreover, their films, despite being rooted in local culture, translated across borders and received strong ac-   of claim in Western cinema circles. Naderi’s work in particular has helped popularize...

... female Iranians lived and Iranian filmmakers operated. He notes: “Using children in films facilitated the development of Iranian cinema and the role it played in reflecting, interpreting and above all representing Iranians. One of the distinctive...

...- South Africa tion in the political institutions. “National Unity,” the Copts, and the Cinema East Egyptian filmmakers have braved the The Copts in Egypt are not culturally or ethni- Middle issue of religious tension since the beginning cally...

...- 3. “Oil on the Screen,” Film User, January 1953, 260. Mona Damluji • The Oil City in Focus 77 ministrators and technicians. AIOC provided the Rethinking Cinema and the City at the Peripheries British staff amenities and some...

... to toward a way of retaining the increasingly belea- 573 media produced and/or consumed by Muslim immi- guered concept of national cinema while exploring grants in Western Europe, with the exception of an the various cinematic exchanges among different interesting—albeit brief—section...

... to toward a way of retaining the increasingly belea- 573 media produced and/or consumed by Muslim immi- guered concept of national cinema while exploring grants in Western Europe, with the exception of an the various cinematic exchanges among different interesting—albeit brief—section...