Format:
1 online resource (277 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780367210588
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9781000293319
Content:
This volume points to the limits of models such as regional, national, and transnational, and develops 'network' as a conceptual category to study cinemas of India. It addresses themes such as transgressive female figures; networks of authors and technicians; trans-regional production links and changing technologies; and new media geographies
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: detouring networks -- Part I The female star, traveling figures and transgressions -- 1 Fatma Begum, South Asia's first female director: resurrections from media and legal archives -- 2 The 'problem of respectable ladies joining films': industrial traffic, female stardom and the first talkies in Bombay and Tehran -- 3 Sabita's journey from Calcutta to Bombay: gender and modernity in the circuits of cinemas in India -- 4 Travels of the female star in the Indian cinemas of the 1940s and 50s: the career of Bhanumathi -- 5 Bringing bharatanatyam to Bombay cinema: mapping Tamil-Hindi film industry traffic through Vyjayanthimala's dancing body -- Part II Networks of circulation, production, and imaginings -- 6 Film exhibition in Hyderabad in the 1930s: the case of Moti Mahal cinema and film circulation -- 7 Arriving at Bombay: Bimal Roy, transits, transitions, and cinema of intersection -- 8 Circumambient geographies of cinema: the Shaw Brothers' Malay film production studios in mid-century Singapore -- 9 Filmfare, the Bombay industry, and internationalism (1952-1962) -- 10 Traversing The Evil Within (1970): transnational aspirations, stardom, and infrastructure in a cold-war Asia -- Part III Media geographies, agencies, and technologies -- 11 Habits and worlds: Malayalam cinema's travels with the gulf -- 12 Celluloid visions in a video frame: Bhojpuri cinema between insurrections and catharsis -- 13 Mixing industrial elements, generating sexual agency in Aiyyaa -- 14 Blurring the boundaries between Hollywood and Bollywood: the production of dubbed films in Mumbai -- 15 Making-of videos: of placeless studios and pioneering music directors
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16 Locating Mollywood: video industries, inter-regional media networks and the "located mobility" of Malegaon films -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Mehta, Monika Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2020 ISBN 9780367210588
Language:
English
Keywords:
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