South Asia in Alternative Cinema(s)

Introduction PART I: Alternative Cinema(s) 1. Minor Avant-gardists in the 1970s-1980s: History of Alternate Cinema Movement in Kerala 2. Remoulding the Alternative: Style and Aesthetics of Contemporary Alternative Indian Cinemas 3. M. S. Satyuâs Ijjodu: A Visual Encounter between Tradition and Modernity 4. Foregrounding the Reading and the Writing Process: Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukhtankarâs Marathi film Samhita PART II: Contestations: Nation, Culture and Identity 5. Of Homogenous Temporality and Dissonant Spaces: Demarcating a Space for Kannada in/vis- -vis India in Kannada Parallel Films 6. Remapping Calcutta: Old media / New media, neighbourhoods, and alternative Cartographies of the City 7. Chetan Anandâs Neecha Nagar: Reconfiguring the City through Struggle and Resilience 8. Alternative Modes of Perception: A Reading of Perceptual Divide between Blind and Sighted Worlds in Sparsh PART III: Gender and Sexuality 9. Discourses on Pakistanâs Screen: An Alternate Space of Cultural Production And (Re)Evaluating Meaning Around Religious Text 10. Relocating the Gaze: Through the Lens of Deepa Mehta 11. The Namkeen Women: Locating Gender in Gulzarâs Film Narratives 12. Son Preference! A Historical Legacy or Socio-Economic Compulsion: A Cinematic Approach 13. The Cultural Amnesia: A Dialogue between Livelihood and Taboo PART IV: Auteurs, Authors and Film Adaptations 14. Reading Satyajit Rayâs Pather Panchali: Discovering the Existential Strain 15. Towards Self-reliant womanhood in Satyajit Rayâs Charulata 16. Re-Contextualizing and Adapting The Canon: The Example Of Aparna Senâs Ghawre Bairey Aaj (2019) 17. Caste, Crying and Cinema: Engendering a Subaltern Cinematic Aesthetics through Adaptation 18. Troubled Love: Adaptations & Intertextuality 19. From Words ta Images: Satyajit Rayâs Re-interpretation of Premchandâs Sadgati 20. Unravelling the question of âTo be, or not to beâ: A Comparative Analysis of Hamlet and Haider PART V: Borders and Beyond 21. Partition Cinema and its Narrative Trajectories 22. Lives, Cameras and Actions: A Study of Select Works of Tibetan Exiled Filmmakers 23. Buddhism in Bhutanese Cinema; Divine Portrayal of Femininity in Bhutanese Films