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7|Journal of Bengali Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 making a number of of smart and brilliant movies these days and Bengali cinema can return to the glory days of New Theatres once more, armed with an intelligent story telling and an understanding of popular entertainment. As a Bengali nationalistic endeavour, this journal remains committed to the study and analysis of Bengali culture, and continues to nurture that project in this current issue celebrating Bengali Cinema: Bengalis and Cinema. We congratulate our contributors whose sincere research works examining Bengali cinema and the Bengalis' relationship with cinema from different thoughtprovoking perspectives will not only continue to provide insights into the historical development for Bengali film industry for all future students of Bengali cinema, it will also make its permanent place in the historiography of Bengali cinema. It will be a collector's item for anyone who is interested in Bengali culture, we believe. In this issue we have included a third section in our journal, in addition to articles and reviews, which is called 'Creative Workshop: Theory in Practice'. This section features a creative work related to the theme of this issue of JBS. This issue's creative workshop features a script adaptation of a poem, with a brief note from the scriptwriter. The editorial board (and the contributors) can be reached at editjbs@gmail.com and shoptodina@gmail.com. Readers of JBS can find updates and call For Papers for the forthcoming issues and post comments and responses at http://bengalistudies.blogspot.in/ .
Towards a Historiography of Bengali Cinema Or, Everything You Enquired about Herbert Sarkar, but Were Dismissed by the Coffee House Intellectual Tamal Dasgupta This article attempts an against-the-grain reading of Herbert the book (1993) and Herbert the film (made in 2005, public release in Kolkata in 2006) and in the process of that reading, tries to establish a methodology for studying the historical trajectory of Bengali cinema, which is a part of the larger socio-economic-political trajectory of Bengali culture in the twentieth century). Nabarun Bhattacharya's Herbert (that won Sahitya Academy Award in 1997) is a deeply cinematic novel, going by the admission of Suman Mukhopadhyay (the director of Herbert) himself in an interview with Deepa Ganesh published in The Hindu on April 7 2006, where he says, “The first reading of the novel evoked cinematic images” (Ganesh, “The Outsider and His City”). Accordingly, the film made by Suman Mukhopadhyay is meta-cinematic; Herbert is a movie about movies. Nathan Lee, a film critic, speaks of Herbert the film in these terms in New York Times on 10 December 2008: “Movies are very much the point of this film: allusions to classic Hollywood and Indian cinema
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