Cinema and the Indian National Emergency, Fester Einband

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"Cinema and the Indian National Emergency examines the strained relationship between the state and the Indian film industry during this period of political upheaval. Each of the essays, written from a broad range of critical perspectives, analyse controversial films such as Aandhi (1975), Nasbandi (1978), and Kissa Kursi Ka (1977), which were all subject to state censorship. It considers the cinematic representations and afterlives, and the possible modes of archiving and remembering the cinema of the Indian Emergency"--