Amit S Rai

Untimely Bollywood

Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines Indian popular cinema as a transnational phenomenon that mediates experiences of globalization and the media technologies and practices that shape postcolonial subjectivity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343943
• ISBN-10: 0822343940
• Artikelnr.: 25877442

Autorenporträt

Amit S. Rai is Associate Professor of English at Florida State University. He is the author of Rule of Sympathy: Race, Sentiment, and Power, 1750–1860 .

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: India and the New Nonlinear Media Assemblage 1
Part 1. Cinema Becoming New Media
1. “First Day, First Show”: Bollywood Cinemagoing and the New Sensorium 21
2. Contagious Multiplicities and the Nonlinear Life of the New Media 55
Part 2. Toward an Ontology of Media Durations
3. “The Best Quality Cinema Viewing . . . Everywhere. Everytime.”: On the
Multipliex Mutagen in India 131
4. "With You Every Moment in Time": On the Emergent Ittafaq (Chance)
Assemblage 79
Conclusion: Clinamedia 211
Notes 221
Bibliography 275
Index 289