Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India (eBook, ePUB)

Shooting Stars, Shifting Geographies and Multiplying Media
Redaktion: Mehta, Monika; Mukherjee, Madhuja

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume points to the limits of models such as regional, national, and transnational, and develops 'network' as a conceptual category to study cinemas of India. It addresses themes such as transgressive female figures; networks of authors and technicians; trans-regional production links and changing technologies; and new media geographies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000293319
• Artikelnr.: 60576533

Autorenporträt

Monika Mehta is Associate Professor of English at State University of New York, Binghamton, USA. She is the author of Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema (2011/ 2012) and has also co-edited Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of Korea and India (2019). Madhuja Mukherjee is involved with art-practice, curatorial projects, and filmmaking. She is Professor of Film Studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Her research papers have been published in academic journals; she is the author of New Theatres Ltd.: The Emblem of Art, The Picture of Success (Pune: 2009), editor of Aural Films, Oral Cultures: Essays on Cinema from the Early Sound Era (Kolkata: 2012), Voices of the Talking Stars: The Women of Indian Cinema and Beyond (Kolkata/ Delhi: 2017), and Popular Cinema in Bengal: Genre, Stars, Public Cultures (London / New York: 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Detouring Networks PART I The Female Star, Traveling Figures
and Transgressions 1. Fatma Begum, South Asia's 'First' Female Director:
Resurrections from Media and Legal Archives 2. The 'Problem of Respectable
Ladies Joining Films': Industrial Traffic, Female Stardom and the First
Talkies in Bombay and Tehran 3. Sabita's Journey from Calcutta to Bombay:
Gender and Modernity in the Circuits of Cinemas in India 4. Travels of the
Female Star in the Indian Cinemas of the 1940s and 50s: The Career of
Bhanumathi 5. Bringing Bharatanatyam to Bombay Cinema: Mapping Tamil-Hindi
Film Industry Traffic through Vyjayanthimala's Dancing Body PART II
Networks of Circulation, Production, and Imaginings 6. Film exhibition in
Hyderabad in 1930s: The Case of Motimahal Theatre and Film Circulation 7.
Arriving at Bombay: Bimal Roy, Transits, Transitions, and Cinema of
Intersection 8. Circumambient Geographies of Cinema: The Shaw Brothers'
Malay Film Production Studios in mid-century Singapore 9. Filmfare, the
Bombay Industry and Internationalism (1952-1962) 10. Traversing The Evil
Within (1971) - Transnational aspirations, Gender, Infrastructure in a
post-war Asia PART III Media Geographies, Agencies and Technologies 11.
Habits and Worlds: Malayalam Cinema's Travels with the Gulf 12. Celluloid
Visions in a Video Frame: Bhojpuri Cinema between Insurrections and
Catharsis 13. Mixing Industrial Elements, Generating Sexual Agency in
Aiyyaa 14. Blurring the Boundaries Between Hollywood and Bollywood: The
Production of Dubbed Films in Mumbai" 15. Making-of Videos: Of Placeless
Studios and Pioneering Music Directors 16. The Materiality of Digital
Footprints: Video industries, media networks and the "located mobility" of
Malegon films