Sonic Infrastructures: Mediating National Cinemas in West and South Asia

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Sonic Infrastructures traces how sound shaped the transregional movement of cinema across the Middle East and South Asia from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. Drawing on archival research in Egypt, India, and Iran, Claire Cooley shows how sonic infrastructures—including gramophone records, radio, early sound cinema, ...