Indian Cinema Today and Tomorrow : Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Audiences (Hardcover)

Editorial. Foreword. 1. Introduction 2. Cinema in a Capitalist Republic (In the Making) 3. Is it Post-Cinema? 4. Cynical Realism and the Immobility of the Contemporary 5. ‘It Needs to be More Like a Hindi Film’: Dubbing Hollywood in India 6. Digital Horror in Hindi Cinema 7. Towards Standardisation: Notes on the Indian SVOD Production Apparatus 8. Where is Cinema? COVID?19 and Shifts in India’s Cinemascape 9. Amplification as Pandemic Effect: Single Screens in Telugu Country 10. The #MeToo Movement in the Indian Film Industries: Bringing Sexual Exploitation into Focus 11. Mirzapur 12. Masculinity in Transit: Remaking Male Stardom in Turn-of-the-Millennium Bengali Cinema 13. The Grounds of Cinema: ‘Geo’politics and ‘Geo’aesthetics in Documentaries of India’s Northeast 14. A Change of Address with Filmfare Middle East 15. The Absent Fullness of ‘Not-Yet Cinema’ 16. Films in Progress 17. Aspirational Cinema: Circuits of Cinephilia, Amateur Films and Local Film Festivals 18. Happy Together: Cinema’s Collective Futures 19. Archive ‘Stories’: Indian Film Memorabilia in the Age of New Media Public 20. Through Charulata’s Opera Glass: Re-viewing the Cinema-Effect 21. Filmic Afterlives: Considerations on the Uncanny