Early Sri Lankan cinema and its association with the South Indian film industry / Ashley Ratnavibhushana, MLM Mansoor ; research coordinators: K Hariharan (India), Ranjanee Ratnavibhushana (Sri Lanka).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ratnavibhushana, Ashley, author.

Mansoor, M. L. M., author.

Contributor:

Hariharan, K.

Ratnavibhushana, Ranjanee.

Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema.

Āsiyānu Sinamā Kēndraya

Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--Sri Lanka--History.

Motion picture industry.

Motion picture industry--India--History.

History.

India.

Sri Lanka.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 179 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimilies ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Boralesgamuwa, Sri Lanka Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema Asian Film Centre, 2012.

Contents:

1. Forms of popular entertainment in Ceylon during the early 20th century

2. The advent of cinema in British India

3. The glitter and glamour of the bioscope

4. The unbilical cord that was too difficult to cut

5. Advent of Kadavunu Poronduwa (Broken promise)

6. Asokamala : the historical romance

7. Photographed plays : an infantile disorder of early Sinhala films

8. The decade of 1950s : the peak of Indian influence

9. Film news Anandhan : memories of a veteran

10. Reminisces of a cinema historian

11. My days in Ceylon : AB Raj travels through memory lane

12. Modern theatres : a historical landmark of the South Indian cinema

13. A Sri Lankan Tamil writer's view

14. Cross migrations : another dimension of Indo-Lanka cinematic links

15. SV Venkatraman : the Laboratory Chief of Vijaya Studio, Colombo

16. Other Indian directors who made Sinhala films

17. Dubbing of films : a technological innovation of 1940s.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 157) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Fund.

ISBN:

9789550178018

9550178013

OCLC:

861376676