A Companion to Indian Cinema

A new collection on Indian cinema in the Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas series In A Companion to Indian Cinema, film scholars Neepa Majumdar and Ranjani Mazumdar bring together 25 established and emerging scholars to deliver new research on contemporary and historical questions on Indian cinema. Engaging with current debates in film and media studies, the collection reflects on production cultures, media infrastructures, material cultures, censorship, stardom, media aesthetics and circulation, and Indian cinema's movement through transnational networks. From regional cinemas such as Bhojpuri, Bengali, Malayalam, Manipuri, and Marathi to Indian cinema in China, the chapters also span the range from art cinema to commercial Bombay/Bollywood to B movie circuits. Even as scholarship on earlier decades of Indian cinema is challenged by the absence of documentation and films, the innovative archival and field work in this volume extends from cinema in early twentieth century India to a historicized engagement with more recent dimensions of technology, aesthetics, and the archival impulse of film. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students of film and media studies, South Asian studies, and history, A Companion to Indian Cinema is also an important new resource for other scholars with an interest in the context and theoretical framework for the study of India's moving image cultures.