Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid reconstructs an era of film that saw an unprecedented public visibility attached to the moving image and to its social usage. The cinema was not invented by celluloid, nor will it die with celluloid's growing obsolescence. But 'celluloid' names a...

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1. Verfasser:	Rajadhyaksha, Ashish 1957- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.] Indiana Univ. Press 2009
Schriftenreihe:	South Asian cinemas
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1895-1990 Film Geschichte Gesellschaft Politik Motion pictures > Political aspects > India Motion pictures > Social aspects > India Motion pictures > India > History Socialism and motion pictures > India Staat Indien
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Zusammenfassung:	Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid reconstructs an era of film that saw an unprecedented public visibility attached to the moving image and to its social usage. The cinema was not invented by celluloid, nor will it die with celluloid's growing obsolescence. But 'celluloid' names a distinct era in cinema's career that coincides with a particular construct of the twentieth-century state. This is not merely a coincidence: the very raison d'etre of celluloid was derived from the use to which the modern state put it, as the authorized technology through which the state spoke and as narrative practices endorsing its authority as producer of the rational subject. The book throws new light on a phenomenon that is arguably basic to all cinema, but which India's cinematic evidence throws into sharpest relief: the narrative simulation of a symbolically sanctified rationality at the behest of a state. This evidence is explored through three key moments of serious crisis for the twentieth-century Indian state, in all of which the cinema appears to have played a central role. Bollywood saw Indian cinema herald a globalized culture industry considerably larger than its own financial worth, and a major presence in India's brief claim to financial superpower status. The debate on Fire centrally located spectatorial negotiations around the constitutional right to freedom of speech at a key moment in modern Indian history when Article 19 was under attack from pro-Hindutva forces. And the Emergency (1975-77) saw a New Indian Cinema politically united against totalitarian rule but nevertheless rent asunder by disputes over realism, throwing up new questions around the formation of an epochal moment in independent India.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-427) and index
Beschreibung:	X, 441 S. Ill. 24 cm
ISBN:	9780253352682 0253352681 9780253220486 0253220483