{"product_id":"a-companion-to-indian-cinema-hardback-9781119048190","title":"A Companion to Indian Cinema (Hardback) 9781119048190","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to Indian Cinema\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNeepa Majumdar (Edited by), N Majumdar (Author), Ranjani Mazumdar (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781119048190, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 October 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e624 pages\u003cbr\u003e1 x 1 x 1 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new collection in the Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas series, featuring the cinemas of India\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Indian Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEven 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 \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuitable for undergraduate and graduate students of film and media studies, South Asian studies, and history, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Indian Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRanjani Mazumdar and Neepa Majumdar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Production Cultures and Circulation 35\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Risky Business: The Structure and Practice of Formal Film Distribution in the Hindi Film Industry 37\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTejaswini Ganti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Spectators from the Past: Remakes, Development, and the Bhojpuri Audience 60\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKathryn Hardy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 (Not So) Far from Bollywood: Videocinemas of India 78\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBhaskar Sarkar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Cinema and Material Traces 101\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Shifty Outfits: Envisioning the Hindi Film Villain 103\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eClare M. Wilkinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Archival Conjugations: Queer Traces of Love and Loss in Bombay Cinema 122\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDebashree Mukherjee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Excavating Movie Queens: The Curious Case of the James Burke Photographs 147\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSabeena Gadihoke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Scenes of Horror: Reading the Documents of Indian Film Censorship 170\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKartik Nair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Voices, Bodies, and Figures of Influence 197\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Dance and Ludic Queerness: A Genealogy of Gestures from Bhagwan to Bachchan 199\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eUsha Iyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Performing the Bhadramahila: Suchitra Sen and Popular Bangla Cinema 219\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSmita Banerjee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Volatile Scales, Contingent Bodies: The Many Voices of Asha Bhosle 239\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eShikha Jhingan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Contemporary Bengali Cinema: Nostalgia, Politics, and the Ghosts of Satyajit Ray 260\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMeheli Sen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Tamasha Film: Gender, Performance, and Melodramatic Form 281\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAarti Wani\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV The Nonfiction Impulse 303\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Shikar Film and Photograph: Hunting in Colonial India 305\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVeena Hariharan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Moving Images: Documentary, Sexual Dissidence, and Vectors of Desire 319\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eShohini Ghosh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Other Song: Gender, Performance, and Aurality in Documentary Film 339\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnuja Jain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Infrastructures of Political Address: The Film and Media Archive 360\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRavi Vasudevan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Transnational and Transregional Circuits 387\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 In and Out of Alignment: Cold War Sentiment and Hollywood–Bombay Film Diplomacy in the 1950s 389\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNitin Govil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Coming into Cinema: Critical Cosmopolitanisms of Malayalam Cinema (1930–1955) 412\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBindu Menon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Affective Logics: Re-making Fidelity and Homosociality in Kaante 433\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMonika Mehta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 The “Conscience of Bollywood” in China: Aamir Khan and Transnational Spreadable Media 456\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKrista Van Fleit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 “Get on the Train, Baby!” Joining Kashmir and Kanyakumari through Hinglish and English Accents and Language in Chennai Express (2013) 473\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHelen Ashton and Rachel Dwyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Reflections on the Medium\/Media Inscriptions 493\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Staging the Screen, Screening the Stage: Mediation and the Problem of Cinematic Self-Reflexivity 495\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNeepa Majumdar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Radical Time: 1971 and Art 514\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAshish Rajadhyaksha\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Technological Obsolescence and Space in Bombay Cinema 540\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRanjani Mazumdar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 From Unattainable to Distantly Watched Films: Film Archives and their Digital Futures 569\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLawrence Liang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 590\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52421394137368,"sku":"9781119048190","price":109.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781119048190.jpg?v=1784594619","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-companion-to-indian-cinema-hardback-9781119048190","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}