Rai Untimely Bollywood

Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9233-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 316 Seiten

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An argument that the fast-paced, multivalent qualities of contemporary Bollywood cinema are emblematic of the changing conditions of media consumption in a globalizing India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rai, Amit S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: India and the New Nonlinear Media Assemblage 1

Part 1. Cinema Becoming New Media

1. “First Day, First Show”: Bollywood Cinemagoing and the New Sensorium 21

2. Contagious Multiplicities and the Nonlinear Life of the New Media 55

Part 2. Toward an Ontology of Media Durations

3. “The Best Quality Cinema Viewing. Everywhere. Everytime.”: On the Multipliex Mutagen in India 131

4. "With You Every Moment in Time": On the Emergent Ittafaq (Chance) Assemblage 79

Conclusion: Clinamedia 211

Notes 221

Bibliography 275

Index 289

Über Autor(innen)

Amit S. Rai is Associate Professor of English at Florida State University. He is the author of Rule of Sympathy: Race, Sentiment, and Power, 1750–1860.