1st Edition
Wondrous Screens in India Cinema Halls, Place, Public, and Cinephilia
Introduction: Wondrous screens in India: cinema halls, place, public, and cinephilia
Madhuja Mukherjee and Kaushik Bhaumik
Part I: Cities, towns, and history of the cinematic
1. The early world of cinema, expansion of theatres in Bombay and a map of the city via cinema-halls
Virchand Dharamsey
2. Maratha Mandir, Bombay: cartographies of difficult histories of a metropolis
Jenisha Borah
3. Something slippery: A speculative history of Calcutta cinemas through court-room documents
Madhuja Mukherjee
4. The Prabhat trajectory in Pune: studio, theatre and film practice (1934–present)
Hrishikesh Arvikar
5. Cinema-going in a mofussil town: recalling the life and times of Lakshmi Talkies, Allahabad
Lalit Joshi
6. Tirunelveli, touring talkies and tent cinemas: multiple stories of single-screens
Swarnavel Eswaran
7. The political economy of the single-screen cinema with respect to Bombay cinema
Kaushik Bhaumik
PART II: Single-screens and radical reconfigurations
8. Escaping the DVD dispositif: John Abraham and the historical exhibition
Parichay Patra
9. The ‘Celluloid Chapter’ in Jamshedpur: break journeys and film society cinephilia
Abhija Ghosh
10. Cinema memories and single screen theatres: Yakut Mahal theatre, Hyderabad
C. Yamini Krishna
11. After the single screen: performing publics at large
S. V. Srinivas
12. The ‘Great Unknown’: the movie theatre in our time
Ashish Rajadhyaksha
13. Cinema and its spectral returns: the single-screen viewer at the site of artistic re-imagination
Madhuja Mukherjee
14. Watching films in Kashmir Valley, 1960–1990: an interview with Inder Salim, artist
Kaushik Bhaumik
Biography
Madhuja Mukherjee is Professor of Film Studies at Jadavpur University, India. Her research involves: South Asian film and media industrial histories, sound in cinema, gender, labour, digital practice, and urban cultures. She focuses on archives and material history of film and media. Her academic research evolved into media-installations, comics, and films.
Kaushik Bhaumik is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. His areas of research mainly pertain to Indian, Asian and global cinemas with special emphasis on the political and cultural economies of film and media histories. He also teaches courses on 20th-century visual aesthetics.
