Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India: Shooting Stars, Shifting Geographies and Multiplying Media

This book explores the interconnectedness of Indian film industries across regional and national boundaries, highlighting the flow of filmic material, actors, performers, authors, technicians, genres, styles, sounds, expertise, languages, and capital. It uncovers histories of film production, distribution, and exhibition and their connections beyond boundaries, industrial practices, and multiple media. The chapters address themes such as transgressive female figures, networks of authors and technicians, trans-regional production links, and new media geographies. It expands the critical vocabulary in media and production studies and offers new methods for examining cinema.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 260 pages
\n Publication date: 21 December 2020
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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This comprehensive volume explores the boundaries of models like regional, national, and transnational cinema and introduces the concept of "network" as a conceptual framework to study Indian cinema. Through rigorous and interdisciplinary research, it demonstrates how film industries situated in diverse territories have not operated as isolated units but rather have been interconnected through the exchange of filmic material, actors, performers, authors, technicians, genres, styles, sounds, expertise, languages, and capital across trans-regional contexts since the inception of cinema. The book excavates the histories of film production, distribution, and exhibition, as well as their connections beyond regional and national boundaries, and between places, industrial practices, and multiple media.

The chapters in this volume delve into various themes, including transgressive female figures, networks of authors and technicians, trans-regional production links and evolving technologies, and new media geographies. By closely tracking manifold changes in the contexts of transforming media and interconnections between diverse industrial nodal points, this book expands the critical vocabulary in media and production studies and highlights new methodologies for examining cinema.

A groundbreaking account of industrial networks, this volume is of immense value to scholars and researchers in film studies, cinema studies, media studies, production studies, media sociology, gender studies, South Asian studies, and cultural studies. It provides valuable insights into the complex dynamics of film industries and their role in shaping cultural landscapes across regions.

\n Weight: 426g\n
Dimension: 154 x 235 x 18 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367344719\n \n