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A Companion to Indian Cinema
Neepa Majumdar (Edited by), N Majumdar (Author), Ranjani Mazumdar (Edited by)
9781119048190, Wiley
Hardback, published 10 October 2022
624 pages
1 x 1 x 1 cm, 0.454 kg
A new collection in the Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas series, featuring the cinemas of India 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.
Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgements xiv Introduction 1 Part I Production Cultures and Circulation 35 1 Risky Business: The Structure and Practice of Formal Film Distribution in the Hindi Film Industry 37 2 Spectators from the Past: Remakes, Development, and the Bhojpuri Audience 60 3 (Not So) Far from Bollywood: Videocinemas of India 78 Part II Cinema and Material Traces 101 4 Shifty Outfits: Envisioning the Hindi Film Villain 103 5 Archival Conjugations: Queer Traces of Love and Loss in Bombay Cinema 122 6 Excavating Movie Queens: The Curious Case of the James Burke Photographs 147 7 Scenes of Horror: Reading the Documents of Indian Film Censorship 170 Part III Voices, Bodies, and Figures of Influence 197 8 Dance and Ludic Queerness: A Genealogy of Gestures from Bhagwan to Bachchan 199 9 Performing the Bhadramahila: Suchitra Sen and Popular Bangla Cinema 219 10 Volatile Scales, Contingent Bodies: The Many Voices of Asha Bhosle 239 11 Contemporary Bengali Cinema: Nostalgia, Politics, and the Ghosts of Satyajit Ray 260 12 The Tamasha Film: Gender, Performance, and Melodramatic Form 281 Part IV The Nonfiction Impulse 303 13 The Shikar Film and Photograph: Hunting in Colonial India 305 14 Moving Images: Documentary, Sexual Dissidence, and Vectors of Desire 319 15 The Other Song: Gender, Performance, and Aurality in Documentary Film 339 16 Infrastructures of Political Address: The Film and Media Archive 360 Part V Transnational and Transregional Circuits 387 17 In and Out of Alignment: Cold War Sentiment and Hollywood–Bombay Film Diplomacy in the 1950s 389 18 Coming into Cinema: Critical Cosmopolitanisms of Malayalam Cinema (1930–1955) 412 19 Affective Logics: Re-making Fidelity and Homosociality in Kaante 433 20 The “Conscience of Bollywood” in China: Aamir Khan and Transnational Spreadable Media 456 21 “Get on the Train, Baby!” Joining Kashmir and Kanyakumari through Hinglish and English Accents and Language in Chennai Express (2013) 473 Part VI Reflections on the Medium/Media Inscriptions 493 22 Staging the Screen, Screening the Stage: Mediation and the Problem of Cinematic Self-Reflexivity 495 23 Radical Time: 1971 and Art 514 24 Technological Obsolescence and Space in Bombay Cinema 540 25 From Unattainable to Distantly Watched Films: Film Archives and their Digital Futures 569 Index 590
Ranjani Mazumdar and Neepa Majumdar
Tejaswini Ganti
Kathryn Hardy
Bhaskar Sarkar
Clare M. Wilkinson
Debashree Mukherjee
Sabeena Gadihoke
Kartik Nair
Usha Iyer
Smita Banerjee
Shikha Jhingan
Meheli Sen
Aarti Wani
Veena Hariharan
Shohini Ghosh
Anuja Jain
Ravi Vasudevan
Nitin Govil
Bindu Menon
Monika Mehta
Krista Van Fleit
Helen Ashton and Rachel Dwyer
Neepa Majumdar
Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Ranjani Mazumdar
Lawrence Liang
Subject Areas: Society & culture: general [JF]
