Bollywood and the First Decade of Independence: Seven Directors in Search of a Nation

This book focuses on the cinema of the 1950s in India and analyses the work of seven filmmakers from mainstream Hindi cinema and how they responded to the independent Indian nation after 1947.

Devapriya Sanyal is Assistant Professor of English at St Joseph’s University, Bangalore where she teaches literature and researches on Film, Gender Studies, Urban Studies and Environmental Humanities. She is the author of several books on film and gender such as Failed Masculinities: The Men in Satyajit Ray’s Films, Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema: The Women in Satyajit Ray’s Films (Routledge, UK), Salman Khan: The Man, The Actor, The Legend and ThroughtheEyesofaCinematographer: TheBiographyofSoumenduRoy. Her writings have appeared in national and international journals. She has degrees in English and Film Studies from Lady Brabourne College and JNU.