Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Transregional Archives, Cinematic Encounters: Filmscapes across South Asia 1
5. Part I Nations and Regional Margins
6. 1 National Identity and Cinematic Representation: Independent Films in Bangladesh 25
7. 2 Female Friendship and Forbidden Desire: Two Films from 1960s Pakistan 43
8. 3 Bringing Back Sikhs after the 1984 Pogrom: The Politics of Picturization in Hindi Cinema 60
9. 4 Silencing Films from the Chittagong Hill Tracts: Indigenous Cinema’s Challenge to the Imagined Cultural Homogeneity of Bangladesh 77
10. 5 Pakistan, History, and Sleep: Hassan Tariq, a Progressive Patriarch, and Neend 97
11. Part II Transregional Crossings
12. 6 The Public in the Cities: Detouring through Cinemas of Bombay, Calcutta, and Lahore (1920s–1930s) 119
13. 7 Cross -Wing Filmmaking: East Pakistani Urdu Films and Their Traces in the Bangladesh Film Archive 140
14. 8 Action Heroines and Regional Gifts: Authorship Crossing Pakistan 160
15. 9 Realism and Region in South Indian Cinemas, 1947–1977 180
16. 10 “This Is London, Not Pakistan!” Articulations of the Diaspora in Pakistani Punjabi Film 197
17. 11 The Birth of a Cinema in Post-9/11 Pakistan 216
18. Part III Fractured Geographies, South Connectivities
19. 12 Zahir Raihan’s Stop Genocide (1971) A Dialectical Cinematic Message to the World 233
20. 13 Gender, War, and Resistance: The Case of Kashmir 250
21. 14 Cinema That Raises a Critical Consciousness: The Films of Alamgir Kabir 266
22. 15 Ethical Encounters: Friendship and Healing in Contemporary Films about the Bangladesh Liberation War 283
23. Contributors 301
24. Index 305