1st Edition

Indian Cinema Today and Tomorrow Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Audiences

272 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

272 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

272 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

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... Read more

Editorial

OMITA GOYAL

 

Foreword

KARAN SINGH

 

Introduction

ARGHYA SENGUPTA

 

 

1. Introduction

S. V. SRINIVAS, RATHEESH RADHAKRISHNAN, SUBHAJIT CHATTERJEE

 

2. Cinema in a Capitalist Republic (In the Making)

M. MADHAVA PRASAD

 

3. Is it Post-Cinema?

MOINAK BISWAS

 

4. Cynical Realism and the Immobility of the Contemporary

SUDIPTO BASU

 

5. ‘It Needs to be More Like a Hindi Film’: Dubbing Hollywood in India

TEJASWINI GANTI

 

6. Digital Horror in Hindi Cinema

IPSITA BARAT

 

7. Towards Standardisation: Notes on the Indian SVOD Production Apparatus

ISHITA TIWARY

 

8. Where is Cinema? COVID–19 and Shifts in India’s Cinemascape

DARSHANA SREEDHAR MINI

 

9. Amplification as Pandemic Effect: Single Screens in Telugu Country

S. V. SRINIVA S, RAGHAV NANDURI

 

10. The #MeToo Movement in the Indian Film Industries: Bringing Sexual Exploitation into Focus

UMA MAHESWARI BHRUGUBANDA

 

11. Masculinity in Transit: Remaking Male Stardom in Turn-of-the-Millennium Bengali Cinema

TRINANKUR BANERJEE

 

12. The Grounds of Cinema: ‘Geo’politics and ‘Geo’aesthetics in Documentaries of India’s Northeast

PUJITA GUHA

 

13. A Change of Address with Filmfare Middle East

SAMHITA SUNYA

 

14. The Absent Fullness of ‘Not-Yet Cinema’

MOHAM ED SHAFEEQ KARINKURAYIL

 

15. Films in Progress

RATHEESH RADHAKRISHNAN

 

16. Aspirational Cinema: Circuits of Cinephilia, Amateur Films and Local Film Festivals

MADHUJA MUKHERJEE

 

17. Happy Together: Cinema’s Collective Futures

NAVA NEETHA MOKKIL

 

18. Archive ‘Stories’: Indian Film Memorabilia in the Age of New Media Public

SPANDAN BHATTACHARYA

 

19. Through Charulata’s Opera Glass: Re-viewing the Cinema-Effect

JENSON JOSEPH

 

20. Filmic Afterlives: Considerations on the Uncanny

ASHISH RAJADHYAKSHA, RASHMI SAWHNEY

Biography

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.