The scope of the book encircles ‘past and present complexities of filmmaking, distribution, and cinephilia in a country whose rich cinematic heritage is just beginning to be appreciated’. 1961), Professor Emerita of Indian Cultures and Cinema at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, in which she opines that the Pakistani film industry is largely undocumented. The Editors’ preface is a kind of a manifesto outlining the imperatives leading to the publication of the book. Unlike its prototype ‘Cinema and Society: Film and Social Change in Pakistan’ (2016), meant for the academia and the general reader, the content of the present volume is comprised of research-based writings tinged with social and cultural theory. The third part features appraisals of Pakistani film poster art; masculinity, caste, and gender in Punjabi movies; film technologies and aesthetic exclusion in Pakistani cinema; temporarility, trauma, and the spectre of nostalgia in horror movie ‘Zibahkhana’ (‘Slaughterhouse’); and the circulatory dynamics of Pakistani film.

Source: Pakistan Today December 26, 2020 21:19 UTC