Cinema has been, and is, a powerful tool for social mobilisation. The political importance of cinema was of course always well-known and has continued to evolve and grow. However, with innovations in modern technology, there has been the exponential growth of television alongside the movies, with content made especially for TV, as well as social media.
This volume covers developments in Indian Cinema over the last decade. It explores an array of changes which has dramatically changed cinema a surge of new filming and broadcasting technologies, from the camera phone to the most sophisticated digital equipment; an avalanche of talent, from trained to completely untrained actors; and a volume of content difficult to document and categorise. It also studies cinema growth and reactions to the onslaught of home entertainment and discusses its changing formats over the years, from TV to satellite, to VCRs and DVDs, serials to OTT streaming platforms.
This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in film studies, performance studies, cultural studies, media studies, and popular culture. It will also interest professionals working in media and entertainment industries.
Cinema has been, and is, a powerful tool for social mobilisation. The political importance of cinema was of course always well-known and has continued to evolve and grow. However, with innovations in modern technology, there has been the exponential growth of television alongside the movies, as well as social media.
Editorial. Foreword.
1. Introduction
2. Cinema in a Capitalist Republic
(In the Making)
3. Is it Post-Cinema?
4. Cynical Realism and the Immobility
of the Contemporary
5. It Needs to be More Like a Hindi Film: Dubbing
Hollywood in India
6. Digital Horror in Hindi Cinema
7. Towards
Standardisation: Notes on the Indian SVOD Production Apparatus
8. Where is
Cinema? COVID19 and Shifts in Indias Cinemascape
9. Amplification as
Pandemic Effect: Single Screens in Telugu Country
10. The #MeToo Movement in
the Indian Film Industries: Bringing Sexual Exploitation into Focus
11.
Mirzapur
12. Masculinity in Transit: Remaking Male Stardom in
Turn-of-the-Millennium Bengali Cinema
13. The Grounds of Cinema:
Geopolitics and Geoaesthetics in Documentaries of Indias Northeast
14. A
Change of Address with Filmfare Middle East
15. The Absent Fullness of
Not-Yet Cinema
16. Films in Progress
17. Aspirational Cinema: Circuits of
Cinephilia, Amateur Films and Local Film Festivals
18. Happy Together:
Cinemas Collective Futures
19. Archive Stories: Indian Film Memorabilia in
the Age of New Media Public
20. Through Charulatas Opera Glass: Re-viewing
the Cinema-Effect
21. Filmic Afterlives: Considerations on the Uncanny
Subhajit Chatterjee is Assistant Professor, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Ratheesh Radhakrishnan teaches literature and film at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
S.V. Srinivas is Professor at the School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.
Omita Goyal is Chief Editor, IIC Quarterly, Journal of the India International Centre, New Delhi.
