Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable

by Iftikhar Dadi

Book Overview

A pioneering analysis of exemplary feature films

Commercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 and 1969--the long sixties--in Lahore, Pakistan, following the 1947 Partition of South Asia. These films drew freely from Bengali performance traditions, Hindu mythology, Parsi theater,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295750812
• ISBN13: 9780295750811
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"