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.
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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
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
