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ART CINEMA AND INDIA’S FORGOTTEN FUTURES ART CINEMA AND INDIA’S FORGOT TEN FUTURES Film and History in the Postcolony ROCHONA MAJUMDAR Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex cup. c olumbia. e du Copyright © 2021 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Majumdar, Rochona, author. Title: Art cinema and India's forgotten futures : film and history in the postcolony / Rochona Majumdar. Description: New York : Columbia University Press, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021002487 (print) | LCCN 2021002488 (ebook) | ISBN 9780231201049 (hardback) | ISBN 9780231201056 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780231553902 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Ghatak, Ritwikkumar, 1925– 1976. | Sen, Mrinal, 1923– 2018. | Ray, Satyajit, 1921– 1992. | New wave films— India— History and criticism. | Postcolonialism in motion pictures. | Motion picture producers and directors— India. | Motion pictures— India— History— 20th century. Classification: LCC PN1993.5.I8 M346 2022 (print) | LCC PN1993.5.I8 (ebook) | DDC 791.430954— dc23 LC record available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2021002487 LC ebook record available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2021002488 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid- free paper. Printed in the United States of America Cover design: Milenda Nan Ok Lee Cover image: Courtesy of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) For Dipesh Chakrabarty • CONTENTS Introduction 1 PART I: THE HISTORY OF ART CINEMA 1. Art Cinema: The Indian Career of a Global Category 25 2. The “New” Indian Cinema: Journeys of the Art Film 53 3. Debating Radical Cinema: A History of the Film Society Movement 92 PART II: ART FILMS AS HISTORY 4. Ritwik Ghatak and the Overcoming of History 127 5. “Anger and After”: History, Political Cinema, and Mrinal Sen 154 6. The Untimely Filmmaker: Ray’s City Trilogy and a Crisis of Historicism 189 Epilogue: Art Cinema and Our Present 223 viii Contents Acknowledgments 231 Notes 235 Select Bibliography 281 Index 295 ART CINEMA AND INDIA’S FORGOTTEN FUTURES
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