Title Bengali cinema : 'an other nation' / Sharmistha Gooptu.

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages) : illustrations.
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Physical Medium	polychrome
Series	Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 34
	Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 34.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : the early years -- The idea of a 'Bengali' cinema -- Bengal and a 'national' cinema : New Theatres Ltd. -- The transition to a 'regional' cinema -- Bengali love-stories : Uttam-Suchitra and the golden era of Bengali cinema -- Common man's comedy : the Bhanu factor -- Satyajit Ray and the Bengali cinema -- Changing context, new texts : Bengali cinema and another Bengaliness -- Epilogue.
Summary	Covering the years spanning cinema'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 cinema's last phase of transition in t.
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Subject	Motion pictures -- India -- Bengal.
	Motion pictures.
	India -- Bengal.
	Motion pictures -- India -- West Bengal.
	India -- West Bengal.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Gooptu, Sharmistha. Bengali cinema. London ; New York : Routledge, 2011 9780415570060 (DLC) 2010010438 (OCoLC)560556863
ISBN	9780203843345 (e-book)
	0203843347 (e-book)
	128303865X
	9781283038652
	9780415570060 (hardback)
	0415570069 (hardback)