Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity: In Search of the Modern?

by Zakir Hossain Raju

Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, cinema has been adopted as a popular cultural institution in Bangladesh. At the same time, this has been the period for the articulation of modern nationhood and cultural identity of Bengali Muslims in Bangladesh. This book analyses the relationship between cinema and modernity in Bangladesh, providing a narrative of the uneven process that produced the idea of "Bangladesh cinema."

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415465443
• ISBN13: 9780415465441
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"