Cinemas dark and slow in digital India / Lalitha Gopalan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gopalan, Lalitha, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten International Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--India--History.

Motion pictures.

Independent films--India--History and criticism.

Independent films.

Cinematography--India--History.

Cinematography.

India.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 464 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Hyderabad : Orient Blackswan Private Limited, 2021.

Summary:

"This book provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.D., Kaul, Chauthi Koot, Cosmic Sex, and Gaali Beeja, to undercut the dominance of Bollywood focused film studies. Gopalan assembles films from Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Trivandrum, in addition to independent productions in Bombay cinema, as a way of privileging understudied works that deserve critical attention. The book uses close readings of films and a deep investigation of film style to draw attention to the advent of digital technologies while remaining fully cognizant of the digital as a cryptic formulation for considering the sea change in the global circulation of film and finance. This dual focus on both the techno-material conditions of Indian cinema and the film narrative offers a fulsome picture of changing narratives and shifting genres and styles."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Opening

Minding the gap

Slowing down

Part II. Bombay noir

Tamil New Wave

Road movie

Untitled: Amitabh Chakraborty's cinema

Time out.

Notes:

Originally published: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten International Fund.

ISBN:

9789354421051

9354421059

OCLC:

1390097033