Pikolino and the Sun: A the Kingdom of the Divine Will Fable, Leopold Laurence

Автор: Iftikhar Dadi
Название: Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable
ISBN: 0295750790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295750798
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Commercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 and 1969—the long sixties—in Lahore, Pakistan, following the 1947 Partition of South Asia. These films drew freely from Bengali performance traditions, Hindu mythology, Parsi theater, Sufi conceptions of the self, Urdu lyric poetry, and Hollywood musicals, bringing these traditions into dialogue with melodrama and neorealism. Examining this layered context offers insights into a period of rapid modernization and into cultural affiliation in the South Asian present, when frameworks of multiplicity and plurality are in jeopardy.

Lahore Cinema probes the role of language, rhetoric, lyric, and form in the making of cinematic meaning as well as the relevance of the Urdu cultural universe to midcentury Bombay filmmaking. Challenging the assumption of popular cinema as apolitical, Dadi explores how films allowed their audiences to navigate an accelerating modernity and tense politics by anchoring social change across the terrain of deeper cultural imaginaries. By constituting publics beyond social divides of regional, ethnic, and sectarian affiliations, commercial cinema played an influential progressive role during the mid- and later twentieth century in South Asia.

Lahore Cinema is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of Cornell University.

DOI: 10.6069/9780295750804

Автор: Iftikhar Dadi
Название: Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable
ISBN: 0295750812 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295750811
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Commercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 and 1969—the long sixties—in Lahore, Pakistan, following the 1947 Partition of South Asia. These films drew freely from Bengali performance traditions, Hindu mythology, Parsi theater, Sufi conceptions of the self, Urdu lyric poetry, and Hollywood musicals, bringing these traditions into dialogue with melodrama and neorealism. Examining this layered context offers insights into a period of rapid modernization and into cultural affiliation in the South Asian present, when frameworks of multiplicity and plurality are in jeopardy.

Lahore Cinema probes the role of language, rhetoric, lyric, and form in the making of cinematic meaning as well as the relevance of the Urdu cultural universe to midcentury Bombay filmmaking. Challenging the assumption of popular cinema as apolitical, Dadi explores how films allowed their audiences to navigate an accelerating modernity and tense politics by anchoring social change across the terrain of deeper cultural imaginaries. By constituting publics beyond social divides of regional, ethnic, and sectarian affiliations, commercial cinema played an influential progressive role during the mid- and later twentieth century in South Asia.

Lahore Cinema is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of Cornell University.

DOI: 10.6069/9780295750804

Автор: Barry Polansky, Deborah Bush
Название: The Porch: A Dental Fable
ISBN: 1098357094 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098357092
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Описание: "The Porch" is a business-spiritual fable. It is a masterful work of fiction that serves as an allegory for todays young dentist, as it imparts wisdom to inspire fortitude, purpose, and actions that lead to career satisfaction and a life well lived. This is a Heros Journey about a dentist whose life goes from hopelessness and despair to growth and prosperity with the help of his philosopher mentor. Follow along in this journey as Tom, the young protagonist, learns new ways to view his world from Henry who is a dental philosopher. Tom is motivated to determine what he really wants out of life. He also seeks to view new approaches, practice new positive attitudes, and commit to a higher purpose. On his journey, he masters behavioral skills that fuel a passion for his work and lasting happiness in his life. Ultimately, Tom gives back to other young dentists by guiding them like his mentor Henry guided him. Many of the lessons Tom learns and implements in his life are based on the perennial philosophy of the Stoics and todays field of Positive Psychology.