Love, War, and Other Longings

Essays on Cinema in Pakistan

Asad Ali editor Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:OUP Pakistan

Published:10th Dec '20

Should be back in stock very soon

Love, War, and Other Longings cover

Has there been a 'revival' of Pakistani cinema? Or can the very question be put to scrutiny? Can we think beyond a national cinema, and instead simply think with films to explore the fraught politics and aspirations of our times? Love, War & Other Longings brings together historians, anthropologists, artists, and film-makers to offer new lines of enquiry that probe the tensions between cinema's past and present, absences and the archive, seduction and respectability, class and consumption, as well as genre and censorship. At times experimental in form, the essays seek to draw readers into conversations that engage political theory and postcolonial history, and become part of ongoing writing, thinking, and the making of films in Pakistan and the global south more broadly.

ISBN: 9780190701857

Dimensions: 210mm x 145mm x 15mm

Weight: 488g

274 pages