How Long to Read Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures

How Long Does it Take to Read Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 46 minutes to read Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures by Rochona Majumdar

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The project of Indian art cinema began in the years following independence in 1947, at once evoking the global reach of the term “art film” and speaking to the aspirations of the new nation-state. In this pioneering book, Rochona Majumdar examines key works of Indian art cinema to demonstrate how film emerged as a mode of doing history and that, in so doing, it anticipated some of the most influential insights of postcolonial thought. Majumdar details how filmmakers as well as a host of film societies and publications sought to foster a new cinematic culture for the new nation, fueled by enthusiasm for a future of progress and development. Good films would help make good citizens: art cinema would not only earn global prestige but also shape discerning individuals capable of exercising aesthetic and political judgment. During the 1960s, however, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, and Ritwik Ghatak—the leading figures of Indian art cinema—became disillusioned with the belief that film was integral to national development. Instead, Majumdar contends, their works captured the unresolvable contradictions of the postcolonial present, which pointed toward possible, yet unrealized futures. Analyzing the films of Ray, Sen, and Ghatak, and working through previously unexplored archives of film society publications, Majumdar offers a radical reinterpretation of Indian film history. Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures offers sweeping new insights into film’s relationship with the postcolonial condition and its role in decolonial imaginations of the future.

How long is Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures?

Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures by Rochona Majumdar is 219 pages long, and a total of 56,721 words.

This makes it 74% the length of the average book. It also has 69% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 9 minutes to read Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures aloud.

What Reading Level is Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures?

Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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