Download or read book National Cinema, Cultural Identity and Public Sphere written by Zakir Hossain Raju and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural-nationalists mobilized the ordinary Bengali-Muslims in the 1960s and the 1971 liberation war against pro-Islam Pakistani military junta with the concept of Bengali identity, a key symbol of their cultural-national modernity. In post-war Bangladesh the national-modernist agenda of middle-class Bengali-Muslims got divided. In 1970s-90s Bangladesh the State and political-nationalist Bengali Muslims used popular cinema to signify a nation-state modernity. At the same period, the cultural-nationalist Bengali Muslims opposing the notion of Bangladeshi modernity utilized the concept of art cinema to construct Bengali-Muslim cultural identity towards their envisaged cultural-national modernity.