Covering the years spanning cinemarsquo;s emergence as a popular form in Bengal in the first half of the twentieth century; this book examines the main genres and trends produced by this cinema; and leads up to Bengali cinemarsquo;s last phase of transition in the 1980s. Arguing that Bengali cinema has been a key economic and social institution; the author highlights that the Bengali filmic imaginary existed over and above the imaginary of the Indian nation.This book argues that a definitive history of Bengali cinema presents an alternative understanding to the currently influential notion of the Hindi film as the lsquo;Indianrsquo; or lsquo;nationalrsquo; cinema. It suggests that the Bengali cinema presents a history which brings to the fore the deeply contested terrain of lsquo;nationalrsquo; cinema; and shows the creation of the lsquo;alternative imaginaryrsquo; of the Bengali film. The author indicates that the case of the Bengali cinema demonstrates the emergence of a public domain that set up a definitive discourse of difference with respect to the lsquo;all-Indiarsquo; Hindi film; popularly classified as Bollywood cinema; and which pre-empted its subsumption within the more pervasive culture of the Bombay Hindi cinema. As the first comprehensive historical work on Bengali cinema; this book makes a significant contribution to both Film and Cultural Studies and South Asian Studies in general.
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