After
the proud publication of our first issue on Ognijug, the age of
revolutionary nationalism in Bengal, Journal of Bengali Studies, a
peer reviewed academic interdisciplinary journal meant for
discussions into the history and culture of the Bengali people, is
happy to announce the online publication of its second issue. The
Monsoon Issue (Vol. 1 No. 2) of Journal of Bengali Studies is now
online. The theme of our current issue is Bengali Cinema: Bengalis
and Cinema.
Have
a brief glance at the content of JBS Vol.1 No.2 .
Contents
Editorial
5
Articles
Towards
a Historiography of Bengali Cinema
Or,
Everything You Enquired about Herbert Sarkar, but Were Dismissed by
the Coffee House Intellectual
Tamal
Dasgupta 8
Utopias
of Celluloid Love: The
Golden Era of the 1950s & Popular Culture in Bengali Cinema
Kaustav
Kundu
51
Adivasi
Women in the Bengali Literature and Cinema
Debasree
De
76
Writing
a Biography of Bengali Film Publicity: the Logic of Differentiation,
and a Journey of Desire
Spandan
Bhattacharya 87
Adaptation
of Films from Plays: A selective study in post colonial Bengali
Cinema
Sourav
Gupta 104
From
Tollygunge to Tollywood: The Transformation of Bengali Film Industry
between 1980 and the Present
Anugyan
Nag 120
Film
Reviews
Pather
Dabi and Revolutionary Nationalism in Bengali Cinema: A
Review
Sujay Chatterjee 169
Sujay Chatterjee 169
Promoting
Kolkata on a Global Scale: A Review of Kahaani
Abhijit
Mallick 176
Kahaani
and Bhooter
Bhobishyot: Two Reviews
Mousumi
Biswas Dasgupta 179
Creative
Workshop: Theory in Practice
A
Script Adaptation of a Poem
Debanjan
Das 189
