Industrial networks and cinemas of India : shooting stars, shifting geographies and multiplying media / edited by Monika Mehta and Madhuja Mukherjee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mehta, Monika, 1970- editor.

Mukherjee, Madhuja, 1968- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--India.

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

India.

Motion pictures--Production and direction--India.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Monika Mehta is Associate Professor of English at State University of New York, Binghamton, USA. She is the author of Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema (2011/ 2012) and has also co-edited Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of Korea and India (2019). Madhuja Mukherjee is involved with art-practice, curatorial projects, and filmmaking. She is Professor of Film Studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Her research papers have been published in academic journals; she is the author of New Theatres Ltd.: The Emblem of Art, The Picture of Success (Pune: 2009), editor of Aural Films, Oral Cultures: Essays on Cinema from the Early Sound Era (Kolkata: 2012), Voices of the Talking Stars: The Women of Indian Cinema and Beyond (Kolkata/ Delhi: 2017), and Popular Cinema in Bengal: Genre, Stars, Public Cultures (London / New York: 2020).

Contents:

Part I The female star, traveling figures and transgressions p. 19

1 Fatma Begum, South Asia's first female director: resurrections from media and legal archives p. 21 / Rashmi Sawkney

2 The 'problem of respectable ladies joining films': industrial traffic, female stardom and the first talkies in Bombay and Tehran p. 35 / Claire Cooley

3 Sabita's journey from Calcutta to Bombay: gender and modernity in the circuits of cinemas in India p. 48 / Sarah Rahman Niazi

4 Travels of the female star in the Indian cinemas of the 1940s and 50s: the career of Bhanumathi p. 61 / Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda

5 Bringing bharatanatyam to Bombay cinema: mapping Tamil-Hindi film industry traffic through Vyjayanthimala's dancing body p. 77 / Usha Iyer

Part II Networks of circulation, production, and imaginings p. 93

6 Film exhibition in Hyderabad in the 1930s: the case of Moti Mahal cinema and film circulation p. 95 / C. Yamini Krishna

7 Arriving at Bombay: Bimal Roy, transits, transitions, and cinema of intersection p. 108 / Madhuja Mukherjee

8 Circumambient geographies of cinema: the Shaw Brothers' Malay film production studios in mid-century Singapore p. 124 / Peter J. Bloom

9 Filmfare, the Bombay industry, and internationalism (1952-1962) p. 137 / Anustup Basu

10 Traversing The Evil Within (1970): transnational aspirations, stardom, and infrastructure in a cold-war Asia p. 151 / Pujita Guha

Part III Media geographies, agencies, and technologies p. 165

11 Habits and worlds: Malayalam cinema's travels with the gulf p. 167 / Ratheesh Radhakrishnan

12 Celluloid visions in a video frame: Bhojpuri cinema between insurrections and catharsis p. 181 / Akshaya Kumar

13 Mixing industrial elements, generating sexual agency in Aiyyaa p. 194 / Nilanjana Bhattacharjya and Monika Mehta

14 Blurring the boundaries between Hollywood and Bollywood: the production of dubbed films in Mumbai p. 208 / Tejaswini Ganti

15 Making-of videos: of placeless studios and pioneering music directors p. 222 / Pavitra Sundar

16 Locating Mollywood: video industries, inter-regional media networks and the "located mobility" of Malegaon films p. 238 / Ramna Walia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Print version: Industrial networks and cinemas of India

ISBN:

9780429326028

0429326025

9781000293197

100029319X

9781000293258

1000293254

9781000293319

1000293319

Publisher Number:

40030354635

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