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Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable

dc.contributor.authorDadi, Iftikhar
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-17T19:05:14Z
dc.date.available2023-07-17T19:05:14Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe post-Partition cinema produced between 1956 and 1969-the long '60s-in Lahore, Pakistan, drew promiscuously from Hindu mythology, Bengali performance traditions, Islamicate legends, Sufi conceptions of the self, Punjabi and Sindhi oral narratives, Parsi theater, Urdu lyric poetry, historical and social realism, Hollywood musicals, the psychological and sensorial stimulus of modernity, and more. Consideration of this rich field of influence offers insights into not only the decade that led to the overthrow of the Ayub Khan government, followed in 1971 by the loss of Bangladesh, but also into cultural affiliation in the fraught South Asian present, when frameworks of multiplicity and plurality are in jeopardy. Urdu-language films from Lahore made during this period reveal ways that cinematic form and narrative intersect with cultural memory and with the challenges of their time, characterized by trauma in the aftermath of Partition in 1947, a constricted socio-political horizon, and accelerating modernity. In Lahore Cinema Iftikhar Dadi probes the role of language, rhetoric, and lyric in the making of meaning, and the relevance of the Urdu cultural universe to the genesis of Bombay filmmaking. He argues that commercial cinema in South Asia is among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization. It has provided affective and imaginative resources for its audiences to navigate an accelerating modernity and a fraught politics by anchoring social change across the terrain of deeper cultural imaginaries. And it has played an influential progressive role during the mid-twentieth century, by constituting publics beyond existing social divides, in forging a shared and expanded experience of modernity that extends beyond regional, ethnic, and sectarian affiliations, and in affectively challenging the selective amnesia of nation-state ideologiesen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipDepartment of History of Art, Cornell University - South Asia Program, Cornell University - Society for the Humanities, Cornell University -en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9780295750798
dc.identifier.isbn9780295750811
dc.identifier.isbn0295750812
dc.identifier.isbn0295750790
dc.identifier.otherOCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1336989395
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/113341
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Washington Pressen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectMotion picturesen_US
dc.subjectLahore Pakistanen_US
dc.subjectUrdu language cinemaen_US
dc.subjectNeorealismen_US
dc.subjectMelodrama, social filmsen_US
dc.titleLahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fableen_US
dc.typebooken_US
schema.accessibilityFeaturealternativeTexten_US
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