Marathi Cinema, Cultural Space, and Liminality: A History

This book is a critical history of Marathi cinema, exploring its industrial and aesthetic dynamics and tracing its development as a regional film practice in India over seven decades. It aims to be a useful resource for students, researchers, and general readers, addressing a lack of scholarly inquiries on this important regional film culture.

Format: Hardback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 23 August 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press

This comprehensive and meticulously researched book delves into the rich tapestry of Marathi cinema,spanning its formative years in the 1920s to the close of the 1990s. As the pioneering work in exploring the industrial and aesthetic dynamics of Marathi cinema,it sheds light on the unique concept of region as performance within the framework of critical socio-spatial analysis. In the face of the dominance of Hindi cinema,the Marathi film industry has emerged as a regional film practice in India,navigating a cultural and spatial liminality. This historical trajectory of the Marathi film industry is presented as the formation and dispersion of a vernacular cultural space,tracing its evolution across genres such as saint films,social melodramas,and the vibrant tamasha film. The book not only offers valuable insights for students,researchers,and general readers but also addresses a significant gap in scholarly inquiries into this important regional film culture.

Weight: 500g
Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780192859785