Locating the storyteller in Silent Waters: Sabiha Sumar's cinematic tale of shared histories and divided identities
dc.contributor.author | Imran, Rahat | |
dc.contributor.funder | Horizon 2020 | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-17T08:57:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-12-17T08:57:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.date.updated | 2021-12-16T14:28:38Z | |
dc.description | Open Access Dataset available at: Imran, Rahat. (2022). MUSLIMWOMENFILM DATASET (1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6659716 | |
dc.description.abstract | In her multi award-winning feature film Silent Waters (2003), Pakistani woman filmmaker Sabiha Sumar connects the socio-political traumas of the Partition of India and creation of Pakistan (1947) with the onset of military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq’s Islamization period (1977-1988) in Pakistan. Presenting a story based on real-life events, the film focuses on the impact of religious fundamentalism and nationalism on women in particular. Examining Silent Waters as an example of “history on film/film on history” (Rosenstone 2013), and film as an “agent, product, and source of history” (Ferro 1983), the discussion identifies and analyzes the filmmaker’s own tacitly embedded location and participation in the filmic narrative as an experiential ‘auto/bio-historiographer’, arguing for the value of this new paradigm in Cinema Studies. | en |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Imran, R.(2021) 'Locating the storyteller in Silent Waters: Sabiha Sumar's cinematic tale of shared histories and divided identities', CINEJ Cinema Journal, 9(2), pp. 232-285. doi: 10.5195/cinej.2021.426 | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5195/cinej.2021.426 | en |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2158-8724 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 285 | en |
dc.identifier.issued | 2 | en |
dc.identifier.journaltitle | CINEJ Cinema Journal | en |
dc.identifier.startpage | 232 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/12351 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 9 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Pittsburgh | en |
dc.relation.project | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020::MSCA-IF-EF-ST/837154/EU/Locating the Storyteller: Muslim Women’s Auto/Biographical Cinema from the Islamic World/MUSLIMWOMENFILM | en |
dc.relation.uri | http://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cinej/article/view/426 | |
dc.relation.uri | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6659716 | |
dc.rights | © 2021, the Author. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. | en |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Pakistan | en |
dc.subject | Women filmmakers | en |
dc.subject | Partition | en |
dc.subject | Islam | en |
dc.subject | Historiography | en |
dc.subject | Violence | en |
dc.subject | Honour | en |
dc.subject | Identity | en |
dc.subject | Auto/biography | en |
dc.subject | Muslim women cinema | |
dc.subject | Autobiographical film | |
dc.subject | Women's cinema | |
dc.subject | First-person cinema | |
dc.title | Locating the storyteller in Silent Waters: Sabiha Sumar's cinematic tale of shared histories and divided identities | en |
dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |