With 25 chapters by established and emerging scholars of Indian cinema, this book engages with current debates in film and media studies, presenting new research on production cultures, media infrastructures, material cultures, media aesthetics and circulation, censorship, stardom, non-fiction practices, new technologies, and the transnational networks in which Indian cinema is embedded. Even as scholarship on earlier decades of Indian cinema is challenged by the absence of documentation and films, the innovative archival and field work in this volume extends from cinema in early twentieth century India to a historicized engagement with new technologies and contemporary cinematic practices. From regional cinemas such as Bhojpuri, Bengali, Malayalam, Manipuri, and Marathi to Indian cinema in China, the chapters also span the range from art cinema to commercial Bombay/Bollywood to B movie circuits.
With 25 chapters by established and emerging scholars of Indian cinema, this book engages with current debates in film and media studies, presenting new research on production cultures, media infrastructures, material cultures, media aesthetics and circulation, censorship, stardom, non-fiction practices, new technologies, and the transnational networks in which Indian cinema is embedded. Even as scholarship on earlier decades of Indian cinema is challenged by the absence of documentation and films, the innovative archival and field work in this volume extends from cinema in early twentieth century India to a historicized engagement with new technologies and contemporary cinematic practices. From regional cinemas such as Bhojpuri, Bengali, Malayalam, Manipuri, and Marathi to Indian cinema in China, the chapters also span the range from art cinema to commercial Bombay/Bollywood to B movie circuits.