Red on Silver : Naxalites in Cinema

Social upheavals left a deep impressions on the very fabric of any society. The audio visual media in general and cinema in particular used to romanticize and imbue the audience with its content from its inception. The Naxalite movement has also left some valuable imprints on the cinema. The account analyses those political movies which represent a red political movement on the silver screen featuring Naxalites.

In this pioneer academic probe into the varied responses of political cinema to the Naxalite movement, different researchers have tried to understand the representation of the Naxalites in the films. The depiction registers the diverse aspects of the Naxalite movement, using different theoretical tools keeping the contemporary perspectives in mind. The book consists of twenty seven research papers which are original, unpublished and referenced. The different articles are arranged in five consecutive sections. The sections are as follows (a) Overview, (b) Thematic, (c) Historical, (d) Particularistic, (e) Comparative. The discourse will be a smooth reading for the film critics, scholars and general readers.