Jaikumar Where Histories Reside

India as Filmed Space
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0559-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 414 Seiten

Priya Jaikumar examines seven decades of films shot on location in India to show how attending to filmed space reveals alternative timelines and histories of cinema as well as the myriad ways cinema constructs India as a place.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaikumar, Priya

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Filmed Space 1
Part I. Rationalized Spaces
1. Disciplinary: Indian Towns in British Geography Classrooms 35
2. Regulatory: The State in Films Division's Himalayan Documentaries 75
Part II. Affective Spaces
3. Sublime: Immanence and Transcendence in Jean Renoir's India 125
4. Residual: Lucknow and the Haveli as Cinematic Topoi 181
Part III. Commodified Spaces
5. Global: From Bollywood Locations to Film Stock Rations 233
Conclusion: Cinema and Historiographies of Space 287
Appendix 311
Notes 313
Bibliography 355
Index 389

Über Autor(innen)

Priya Jaikumar is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California and author of Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India, also published by Duke University Press.