Introduction. Transregional Archives, Cinematic Encounters: Filmscapes across South Asia
Elora Halim Chowdhury and Esha Niyogi De
Part I: Nations and Regional Margins
1.) National Identity and Cinematic Representation: Independent Films in Bangladesh
Fahmidul Haq
2.) Female Friendship and Forbidden Desire: Two Films from 1960s Pakistan
Kamran Asdar Ali
3.) Bringing Back Sikhs after the 1984 Pogrom: The Politics of Picturization in Hindi Cinema
Amit Ranjan
4.) Silencing Films from the Chittagong Hill Tracts: Indigenous Cinema's Challenge to the Imagined Cultural Homogeneity of Bangladesh
Glen Hill and Kabita Chakma
5.) Pakistan, History, and Sleep: Hassan Tariq, a Progressive Patriarch, and Neend
Nasreen Rehman
Part II: Transregional Crossings
6.) The Public in the Cities: Detouring through Cinemas of Bombay, Calcutta, and Lahore (1920s–1930s)
Madhuja Mukherjee
7.) Cross-Wing Filmmaking: East Pakistani Urdu Films and Their Traces in the Bangladesh Film Archive
Lotte Hoek
8.) Action Heroines and Regional Gifts: Authorship Crossing Pakistan
Esha Niyogi De
9.) Realism and Region in South Indian Cinemas, 1947–1977
Hariprasad Athanickal
10.) "This Is London, Not Pakistan!": Articulations of the Diaspora in Pakistani Punjabi Film
Gwendolyn S. Kirk
11.) The Birth of a Cinema in Post-9/11 Pakistan
Zebunnisa Hamid
Part III: Fractured Geographies, South Connectivities
12.) Zahir Raihan's Stop Genocide (1971): A Dialectical Cinematic Message to the World
Fahmida Akhter
13.) Gender, War, and Resistance: The Case of Kashmir
Alka Kurian
14.) Cinema That Raises a Critical Consciousness: The Films of Alamgir Kabir
Naadir Junaid
15.) Ethical Encounters: Friendship and Healing in Contemporary Films about the Bangladesh Liberation War
Elora Halim Chowdhury
Contributors
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