A Companion to Indian Cinema.

Intro -- A Companion to Indian Cinema -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Production Cultures and Circulation -- 1 Risky Business: The Structure and Practice of Formal Film Distribution in the Hindi Film Industry -- 2 Spectators from the Past: Remakes, Development, and the Bhojpuri Audience -- 3 (Not So) Far from Bollywood: Videocinemas of India -- Part II Cinema and Material Traces -- 4 Shifty Outfits: Envisioning the Hindi Film Villain -- 5 Archival Conjugations: Queer Traces of Love and Loss in Bombay Cinema -- 6 Excavating Movie Queens: The Curious Case of the James Burke Photographs -- 7 Scenes of Horror: Reading the Documents of Indian Film Censorship -- Part III Voices, Bodies, and Figures of Influence -- 8 Dance and Ludic Queerness: A Genealogy of Gestures from Bhagwan to Bachchan -- 9 Performing the Bhadramahila: Suchitra Sen and Popular Bangla Cinema -- 10 Volatile Scales, Contingent Bodies: The Many Voices of Asha Bhosle -- 11 Contemporary Bengali Cinema: Nostalgia, Politics, and the Ghosts of Satyajit Ray -- 12 The Tamasha Film: Gender, Performance, and Melodramatic Form -- Part IV The Nonfiction Impulse -- 13 The Shikar Film and Photograph: Hunting in Colonial India -- 14 Moving Images: Documentary, Sexual Dissidence, and Vectors of Desire -- 15 The Other Song: Gender, Performance, and Aurality in Documentary Film -- 16 Infrastructures of Political Address: The Film and Media Archive -- Part V Transnational and Transregional Circuits -- 17 In and Out of Alignment: Cold War Sentiment and Hollywood-Bombay Film Diplomacy in the 1950s -- 18 Coming into Cinema: Critical Cosmopolitanisms of Malayalam Cinema (1930-1955) -- 19 Affective Logics: Re-making Fidelity and Homosociality in Kaante -- 20 The "Conscience of Bollywood" in China: Aamir Khan and Transnational Spreadable Media.

21 "Get on the Train, Baby!" Joining Kashmir and Kanyakumari through Hinglish and English Accents and Language in Chennai Express (2013) -- Part VI Reflections on the Medium/Media Inscriptions -- 22 Staging the Screen, Screening the Stage: Mediation and the Problem of Cinematic Self-Reflexivity -- 23 Radical Time: 1971 and Art -- 24 Technological Obsolescence and Space in Bombay Cinema -- 25 From Unattainable to Distantly Watched Films: Film Archives and their Digital Futures -- Index -- EULA.

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