A companion to Indian cinema

Title:

Author:

Majumdar, Neepa, 1961- editor.

ISBN:

9781119048206

9781119048282

9781119048268

Physical Description:

1 online resource (unpaged) : color illustrations.

Series:

Wiley Blackwell companions to national cinemas

Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas.

Contents:

Introduction / Ranjani Mazumdar and Neepa Majumdar -- Part I. Production cultures and circulation -- 1. Risky business : the structure and practice of formal film distribution in the Hindi film industry / Tejaswini Ganti -- 2. Spectators from the past : remakes, development, and the Bhojpuri audience / Kathryn Hardy -- 3. (Not so) far from Bollywood : videocinemas of India / Bhaskar Sarkar -- Part II. Cinema and material traces -- 4. Shifty outfits : envisioning the Hindi film villain / Clare M. Wilkinson -- 5. Archival conjugations : queer traces of love and loss in Bombay cinema / Debashree Mukherjee -- 6. Excavating movie queens : the curious case of the James Burke photographs / Sabeena Gadihoke -- 7. Scenes of horror : reading the documents of Indian film censorship / Kartik Nair -- Part III. Voices, bodies, and figures of influence -- 8. Dance and ludic queerness : a genealogy of gestures from Bhagwan to Bachchan / Usha Iyer -- 9. Performing the Bhadramahila : Suchitra Sen and popular Bangla cinema / Smita Banerjee -- 10. Volatile scales, contingent bodies : the many voices of Asha Bhosle / Shikha Jhingan -- 11. Contemporary Bengali cinema : nostalgia, politics, and the ghosts of Satyajit Ray / Meheli Sen -- 12. The Tamasha film : gender, performance, and melodramatic form / Aarti Wani -- Part IV. The nonfiction impulse -- 13. The Shikar film and photograph : Hunting in colonial India / Veena Hariharan -- 14. Moving images : documentary, sexual dissidence, and vectors of desire / Shohini Ghosh -- 15. The other song : gender, performance, and aurality in documentary film / Anuja Jain -- 16. Infrastructures of political address : the film and media archive / Ravi Vasudevan / Part V. Transnational and transregional circuits / 17. In and out of alignment : Cold War sentiment and Hollywood-Bombay film diplomacy in the 1950s / Nitin Govil -- 18. Coming into cinema : critical cosmopolitanisms of Malayalam Cinema (1930-1955) / Bindu Menon -- 19. Affective logics : re-making fidelity and homosociality in Kaante / Monika Mehta -- The "conscience of Bollywood" in China : Aamir Khan and transnational spreadable media / Krista Van Fleit -- 21. "Get on the train, baby!" Joining Kashmir and Kanyakumari through Hinglish and English accents and language in 'Chennai Express' (2013) / Helen Ashton and Rachel Dwyer -- Part VI. Reflections on the medium/media inscriptions -- 22. Staging the screen, screening the stage : mediation and the problem of cinematic self-reflexivity / Neepa Majumdar -- 23. Radical time : 1971 and art / Ashish Rajadhyaksha -- 24. Technological obsolescence and space in Bombay cinema / Ranjani Mazumdar -- 25. From unattainable to distantly watched films : film archives and their digital futures / Lawrence Liang.

Abstract:

In "A Companion to Indian Cinema", film scholars Neepa Majumdar and Ranjani Mazumdar along with 25 established and emerging scholars, deliver new research on contemporary and historical questions on Indian cinema. The collection considers Indian cinema's widespread presence both within and outside the country, and pays particular attention to regional cinemas such as Bhojpuri, Bengali, Malayalam, Manipuri, and Marathi. The volume also reflects on the changing dimensions of technology, aesthetics, and the archival impulse of film. The editors have included scholarship that discusses a range of films and film experiences that include commercial cinema, art cinema, and non-fiction film. Even as scholarship on earlier decades of Indian cinema is challenged by the absence of documentation and films, the innovative archival and field work in this Companion extends from cinema in early twentieth century India to a historicized engagement with new technologies and contemporary cinematic practices. There is a focus on production cultures and circulation, material cultures, media aesthetics, censorship, stardom, non-fiction practices, new technologies, and the transnational networks relevant to Indian cinema. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students of film and media studies, South Asian studies, and history, A Companion to Indian Cinema is also an important new resource for scholars with an interest in the context and theoretical framework for the study of India's moving image cultures.

Local Note:

John Wiley and Sons

Subject Term:

Motion pictures -- India.

Motion picture industry -- India.

Cinéma -- Inde.

Cinéma -- Industrie -- Inde.

History & Criticism.

Film & Video.

PERFORMING ARTS.

Motion picture industry

Motion pictures