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

Introduction: Detouring Networks Madhuja Mukherjee and Monika Mehta ? PART I The Female Star, Traveling Figures and Transgressions ? 1.? Fatma Begum, South Asia’s ‘First’ Female Director: Resurrections from Media and Legal Archives Rashmi Sawhney 2.? The ‘Problem of Respectable Ladies Joining Films’: Industrial Traffic, Female Stardom and the First Talkies in Bombay and Tehran Claire Cooley 3.? Sabita’s Journey from Calcutta to Bombay: Gender and Modernity in the Circuits of Cinemas in India Sarah Rahman Niazi 4.? Travels of the Female Star in the Indian Cinemas of the 1940s and 50s: The Career of Bhanumathi Uma Bhrugubanda 5.? Bringing Bharatanatyam to Bombay Cinema: Mapping Tamil-Hindi Film Industry Traffic through Vyjayanthimala’s Dancing Body Usha Iyer PART II Networks of Circulation, Production, and Imaginings ? 6.? Film exhibition in Hyderabad in 1930s: The case of Motimahal theatre and film circulation C. Yamini Krishna 7. Arriving at Bombay: Bimal Roy, Transits, Transitions, and Cinema of Intersection Madhuja Mukherjee 8.? Circumambient Geographies of Cinema:? The Shaw Brothers’ Malay Film Production Studios in mid-century Singapore Peter Bloom 9.? Filmfare, the Bombay Industry and Internationalism (1952-1962) Anustup Basu 10. Traversing The Evil Within (1971) ? Transnational aspirations, Gender, Infrastructure in a post-war Asia Pujita Guha PART III Media Geographies, Agencies and Technologies ? 11.? Habits and Worlds:? Malayalam Cinema’s Travels with the Gulf Ratheesh Radhakrishnan 12. Celluloid Visions in a Video Frame: Bhojpuri Cinema between Insurrections and Catharsis Akshaya Kumar ? ? 13.? Mixing Industrial Elements, Generating Sexual Agency in Aiyyaa Nilanjana Bhattacharjya and Monika Mehta 14.? Blurring the Boundaries Between Hollywood and Bollywood: The Production of Dubbed Films in Mumbai” Tejaswini Ganti 15.? Making-of Videos: Of Placeless Studios and Pioneering Music Directors Pavitra Sundar 16. ?The Materiality of Digital Footprints:? Video industries, media networks and the “located mobility” of Malegon films Ramna Walia