Sarkar, Bhaskar,

Mourning the nation : Indian cinema in the wake of Partition / Bhaskar Sarkar. - Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009. - xi, 372 p. : ill. ;

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-362) and index.

Introduction : national cinema's hermeneutic of mourning -- Cinema's project of nationhood -- Runes of laceration -- Bengali cinema : a spectral subnationality -- Dispersed nodes of articulation -- Ghatak, melodrama, and the restitution of experience -- Tamas and the limits of representation -- Mourning (un)limited -- Coda : the critical enchantment of mourning.

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Motion pictures--India.

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