Indian Cinema Today and Tomorrow: Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Audiences

by S. V. Srinivas (Editor), Ratheesh Radhakrishnan (Editor), Subhajit Chatterjee (Editor), GOYAL OMITA (Editor)

Overview

Cinema has been, and is, a powerful tool for social mobilisation. The political importance of cinema was of course always well-known and has continued to evolve and grow.  However, with innovations in modern technology, there has been the exponential growth of television alongside the movies, with content made especially for TV, as well as social media.

This volume covers developments in Indian Cinema over the last decade. It explores an array of changes which has dramatically changed cinema — a surge of new filming and broadcasting technologies, from the camera phone to the most sophisticated digital equipment; an avalanche of talent, from trained to completely untrained actors; and a volume of content difficult to document and categorise. It also studies cinema growth and reactions to the onslaught of home entertainment and discusses its changing formats over the years, from TV to satellite, to VCRs and DVDs, serials to OTT streaming platforms.

This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in film studies, performance studies, cultural studies, media studies, and popular culture. It will also interest professionals working in media and entertainment industries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032793672
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/22/2024
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Subhajit Chatterjee is Assistant Professor, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Ratheesh Radhakrishnan teaches literature and film at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

S.V. Srinivas is Professor at the School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.

Omita Goyal is Chief Editor, IIC Quarterly, Journal of the India International Centre, New Delhi.

Table of Contents

Editorial. Foreword. 1. Introduction 2. Cinema in a Capitalist Republic (In the Making) 3. Is it Post-Cinema? 4. Cynical Realism and the Immobility of the Contemporary 5. ‘It Needs to be More Like a Hindi Film’: Dubbing Hollywood in India 6. Digital Horror in Hindi Cinema 7. Towards Standardisation: Notes on the Indian SVOD Production Apparatus 8. Where is Cinema? COVID–19 and Shifts in India’s Cinemascape 9. Amplification as Pandemic Effect: Single Screens in Telugu Country 10. The #MeToo Movement in the Indian Film Industries: Bringing Sexual Exploitation into Focus 11. Mirzapur 12. Masculinity in Transit: Remaking Male Stardom in Turn-of-the-Millennium Bengali Cinema 13. The Grounds of Cinema: ‘Geo’politics and ‘Geo’aesthetics in Documentaries of India’s Northeast 14. A Change of Address with Filmfare Middle East 15. The Absent Fullness of ‘Not-Yet Cinema’ 16. Films in Progress 17. Aspirational Cinema: Circuits of Cinephilia, Amateur Films and Local Film Festivals 18. Happy Together: Cinema’s Collective Futures 19. Archive ‘Stories’: Indian Film Memorabilia in the Age of New Media Public 20. Through Charulata’s Opera Glass: Re-viewing the Cinema-Effect 21. Filmic Afterlives: Considerations on the Uncanny