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 b

This book analyses how independent filmmakers from Bangladesh have represented national identity in their films. The focus of this book is on independent and ar

The cultural-nationalists mobilized the ordinary Bengali-Muslims in the 1960s and the 1971 liberation war against pro-Islam Pakistani military junta with the co

Cinema and nationalism are two fundamentally modern phenomena, but how have films shaped our understanding of the creation -the 'imagining' - of Central-Asian n

Studies the rise of Bengali nationalism in East Pakistan in the 1950s and 60s by showcasing the interactions between global politics and local social and econom