Bombay Hustle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bombay Hustle write by Debashree Mukherjee. This book was released on 2020-09-22. Bombay Hustle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial and compelling role in the life of modern India. Bombay Hustle presents an ambitious history of Indian cinema as a history of material practice, bringing new insights to studies of media, modernity, and the late colonial city. Drawing on original archival research and an innovative transdisciplinary approach, Debashree Mukherjee offers a panoramic portrait of the consolidation of the Bombay film industry during the talkie transition of the 1920s–1940s. In the decades leading up to independence in 1947, Bombay became synonymous with marketplace thrills, industrial strikes, and modernist experimentation. Its burgeoning film industry embodied Bombay’s spirit of “hustle,” gathering together and spewing out the many different energies and emotions that characterized the city. Bombay Hustle examines diverse sites of film production—finance, pre-production paperwork, casting, screenwriting, acting, stunts—to show how speculative excitement jostled against desires for scientific management in an industry premised on the struggle between contingency and control. Mukherjee develops the concept of a “cine-ecology” in order to examine the bodies, technologies, and environments that collectively shaped the production and circulation of cinematic meaning in this time. The book thus brings into view a range of marginalized film workers, their labor and experiences; forgotten film studios, their technical practices and aesthetic visions; and overlooked connections among media practices, geographical particularities, and historical exigencies.
Bombay Cinema
Bombay Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bombay Cinema write by Ranjani Mazumdar. This book was released on 2007. Bombay Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Bombay Cinema's Islamicate Histories
Bombay Cinema's Islamicate Histories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bombay Cinema's Islamicate Histories write by Ira Bhaskar. This book was released on 2022-04. Bombay Cinema's Islamicate Histories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An engaging account of the history and influence of Muslim cultures on Bombay cinema. Following Marshal Hodgson, the term "Islamicate" is used to distinguish the cultural forms associated with Islam from the religion itself. The term is especially useful in South Asia where Muslim cultures have commingled with other local cultures over a millennium to form a rich vein of syncretic aesthetic expression. Comprised of fourteen essays written by major scholars, this collection presents an engaging account of the history and influence of cultural Islam on Bombay cinema. The book charts the roots of South Asian Muslim cultures and the precursors of Bombay cinema's Islamicate idioms in the Urdu Parsi Theatre; the courtesan cultures of Lucknow; the literary, musical, and performance traditions of north India; the traditions of miniature painting; and various modes of Perso-Arabic story-telling. Published at a time of acute crisis in the perception and understanding of Islam, this book demonstrates how Muslim and Hindu cultures in India are inextricably entwined.
Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema
Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema write by Monika Mehta. This book was released on 2012-08-24. Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexuality in Bombay cinema. She studies how film censorship on various levels makes the female body and female sexuality pivotal in constructing national identity, not just through the films themselves but also through the heated debates that occur in newspapers and other periodicals. The standard claim is that the state dictates censorship and various prohibitions, but Mehta explores how relationships among the state, the film industry, and the public illuminate censorship's role in identity formation, while also examining how desire, profits, and corruption are generated through the act of censoring. Committed to extending a feminist critique of mass culture in the global south, Mehta situates the story of censorship in a broad social context and traces the intriguing ways in which the heated debates on sexuality in Bombay cinema actually produce the very forms of sexuality they claim to regulate. She imagines afresh the theoretical field of censorship by combining textual analysis, archival research, and qualitative fieldwork. Her analysis reveals how central concepts of film studies, such as stardom, spectacle, genre, and sound, are employed and (re)configured within the ambit of state censorship, thereby expanding the scope of their application and impact.
Evacuee Cinema
Evacuee Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evacuee Cinema write by Salma Siddique. This book was released on 2022-11-30. Evacuee Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian history and popular culture. It examines partition's impact on cultural production, based on hard to access archives and collections situated in India, Pakistan, United Kingdom and the United States.
