Film and Cinephilia in Pakistan: Beyond Life and Death [Paperback]

This volume is a carefully curated selection of recently published academic research, critical essays, translations, and interviews on Pakistani cinema. Indispensable for film enthusiasts, students, and scholars of cinema in Pakistan and beyond, it brings cutting edge works previously trapped behind paywalls together with neglected writings by figures such as Manto, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and Muhammad Hasan Askari. Certain to become a classic in the burgeoning field of South Asian film and media studies, its scope encompasses past and present complexities of filmmaking, distribution, and cinephilia in a country whose rich cinematic heritage is just beginning to be appreciated.This volume is a carefully curated selection of recently published academic research, critical essays, translations, and interviews on Pakistani cinema. Indispensable for film enthusiasts, students, and scholars of cinema in Pakistan and beyond, it brings cutting edge works previously trapped behind paywalls together with neglected writings by figures such as Manto, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and Muhammad Hasan Askari. Certain to become a classic in the burgeoning field of South Asian film and media studies, its scope encompasses past and present complexities of filmmaking, distribution, and cinephilia in a country whose rich cinematic heritage is just beginning to be appreciated.ForewordRachel Dwyer PrefaceAli Khan and Ali Nobil Ahmad Introduction: What is (Pakistani) Cinema? Ali Nobil Ahmad Part I: Cinematic Pasts 1. Lineages of Pakistan's 'Urdu' Cinema: Mode, Mood, and Genre in Zehr-e-Ishq (Poison of Love, 1958)Iftikhar Dadi 2. Mirrors of Movement: aina: Afzal Chowdhury's Cinematography and the Interlinked Histories of Cinema in Pakistan and BangladeshLotte Hoek 3. Cross-wing Filmmaking: East Pakistani Urdu Films and their Traces in the Bangladesh Film ArchiveLotte Hoek 4. Umar Marvi and the Representation of Sindh: Cinema and Modernity in the MarginsJulien Levesque and Camille Bui Part II: Archives 5. PakilÃ6