Now available from Indiana University Press: The Epic Cinema of Kumar Shahani Laleen Jayamanne "It is a rare gift of intuition and understanding for a scholar to bestow on the artist who is her object of study the same beauty and elegance of expression that attracted her to the artist¹s work in the first place. Such is the gift that Laleen Jayamanne has bestowed on the oeuvre of Indian filmmaker, Kumar Shahani." ‹Sumita Chakravarty, author of National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987 The Epic Cinema of Kumar Shahani examines the major works of leading Indian film director Kumar Shahani and explores the reaches of modernist film aesthetics in its international form. More than an auteur study, Laleen Jayamanne approaches Shahani¹s oeuvre conceptually, as films that reveal cinema's synesthetic capabilities. As the author illustrates, Shahani's cinematic project entails a modern reformulation of the ancient oral tradition of epic narration and performance in order to address the contemporary world, establishing a new cinematic expression. As evidenced by his films, constructing cinematic history entails more than an archival project of retrieval and is a living history of the present, which can intervene in the current moment through sensory experiences. 316 pp. cloth 978-0-253-01407-8 $90.00 paper 978-0-253-01410-8 $30.00 More information at: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/807297 For Instructors: If you are interested in adopting this book for course use, please see our exam copy policy: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/link/examcopy Laura Baich Electronic Marketing Manager Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 E. 10th St. Bloomington, IN 47405-3907 ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html