Book review: Smita Banerjee,Modernities and the Popular Melodrama: The Suchitra–Uttam Yug in Bengali Cinema

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Biswas M. (2002a). Historical realism: Modes of modernity in Indian cinema, 1940–60 [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Monash University.

Biswas M. (2002b). The couple and their spaces: Harano Sur as melodrama now. In Ravi S. (Ed.), Making meaning in Indian cinema. Vasudevan.

Chattopadhyay S. (2010). Performative Bengali masculinity: The rhetoric of becoming in Bengali popular cinema of the 1950s. Studies in South Asian Film & Media, 2(1), 3–17. https://doi.org/10.1386/safm.2.1.3_1

Chowdhury S. (2021). Uttam Kumar: A life in cinema. Bloomsbury.

Gooptu S. (2010). Bengali cinema: An other nation. Routledge.

Kaviraj S. (2007). Tagore and the transformations in the ideals of love. In Orsini F. (Ed.), Love in South Asia: A cultural history (pp. 161–182). Cambridge University Press.

Mukherjee M. , & Bakshi K. (2020). Popular cinema in Bengal: Genre, stars, public cultures. Routledge.