A history of India's North-East cinema

• Verfasst von: Baruah, Parthajit [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: A history of India's North-East cinema
• Titelzusatz: deconstructing the stereotypes
• Verf.angabe: Parthajit Baruah
• Ausgabe: First published in the United States of America
• Verlagsort: New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Jahr: 2025
• Umfang: xx, 310 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9798765127667
• ISBN: 9798765127650
• Schlagwörter: (g)Assam / (s)Film / (z)Geschichte
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Baruah, Parthajit: History of India's north-east cinema. - New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025 |(DLC)2024023513
• K10plus-PPN: 1892985063

Abstract

"This book depicts the journey from the first Assamese film (1935) to the present. It addresses the peripheral status and identity crisis of North-Eastern people in mainland India and examines the role of Bollywood in the construction and misrepresentation of this region in popular Hindi cinema. Part I looks at how the people of the North-East are constructed as 'foreigners' or 'outsiders' by mainland Indians. Part II discusses the socio-political and cultural shifts in the Assam region. Part III traces the journey of cinema in the other seven North-Eastern states, narrating the regions' socio-political phenomena and the unique cultural discourses"--