1st Edition
Indian Cinema Today and Tomorrow Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Audiences
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.
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
S.V. Srinivas, Ratheesh Radhakrishnan, Subhajit Chatterjee, and Omita Goyal work with IIC, New Delhi, India.
