Table of Contents

Introduction 1.Methods in Film Historiography: Towards an Interpretive History of Bangladesh Cinema 2.National Cinema and Non-Western Modernity: Framework to Study Bangladesh Cinema 3. National Cinema Study and Beginning of/in Bangladesh Film History 4. Bengali Cinema and Cultural Modernity in Colonial Bengal 5. Dhaka Film Industry and Bengali-Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial East Pakistan 6. Popular Cinema in between Nation-state and Market Forces in Contemporary Bangladesh 7. Cultural Modernity and Art Film Discourses: Towards a Global Bangladeshi Cinema?

About the Author

Zakir Hossain Raju is Associate Professor for Media and Communication at the Independent University, Bangladesh. His research focuses on popular visual culture in Asia, especially the national cinemas in Bangladesh and Malaysia