The most successful period of circulation of Indian movies in Siam (Thailand) was from the 1950s to the 1970s. Vernacularizing them meant, in this case, transforming them into melodramatic cinema experience through the “versioning” art of the film narrators or voice performers. This article traces the enmeshment of popular Indian films within a local, plebeian cinema dispositive, in which film exhibition was subsumed under the paradigm of the oral and improvisatory theatrical entertainment. What became “melodramatic” about Indian (largely Hindi) movies as a result of their metamorphosis within this particular arrangement of technology, voice, text and bodies is the first question to address. The second is what it means now to redeem an expe...
“Bollywood” has finally made it to the Oxford English Dictionary. The 2005 edition defines it as: “a...
In the last twenty years, India\u27s neoliberal policies have transformed the relationship between c...
Wider understandings of popular, commercial Hindi (Indian) cinema centre on discourses surroun...
The most successful period of circulation of Indian movies in Siam (Thailand) was from the 1950s to ...
To produce the song sequences that are central to Indian popular cinema, singers’ voices are first r...
During the first half of the twentieth century, new mass media practices radically altered tradition...
By the 1960s, Hindi-language films from Bombay were in high demand, not only for domestic and diaspo...
In this article, I attempt to decipher the intangible and pre-theoretical dimension of South Asian m...
This article examines the trajectories of sound practice in Indian cinema and conceptualises the use...
India's official embrace of the soft power concept and the popular equation of Bollywood films with ...
The Lumiere brothers came over to India in 1896 and exhibited some films for the benefit of publics....
The roots of popular visual culture of contemporary India can be traced to the mythological films w...
India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After ye...
Scholarship on record production has largely neglected non-Western music practices and their product...
It seems apt to study the idea through modern India’s largest popular culture industry: Bollywood. T...
“Bollywood” has finally made it to the Oxford English Dictionary. The 2005 edition defines it as: “a...
In the last twenty years, India\u27s neoliberal policies have transformed the relationship between c...
Wider understandings of popular, commercial Hindi (Indian) cinema centre on discourses surroun...
The most successful period of circulation of Indian movies in Siam (Thailand) was from the 1950s to ...
To produce the song sequences that are central to Indian popular cinema, singers’ voices are first r...
During the first half of the twentieth century, new mass media practices radically altered tradition...
By the 1960s, Hindi-language films from Bombay were in high demand, not only for domestic and diaspo...
In this article, I attempt to decipher the intangible and pre-theoretical dimension of South Asian m...
This article examines the trajectories of sound practice in Indian cinema and conceptualises the use...
India's official embrace of the soft power concept and the popular equation of Bollywood films with ...
The Lumiere brothers came over to India in 1896 and exhibited some films for the benefit of publics....
The roots of popular visual culture of contemporary India can be traced to the mythological films w...
India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After ye...
Scholarship on record production has largely neglected non-Western music practices and their product...
It seems apt to study the idea through modern India’s largest popular culture industry: Bollywood. T...
“Bollywood” has finally made it to the Oxford English Dictionary. The 2005 edition defines it as: “a...
In the last twenty years, India\u27s neoliberal policies have transformed the relationship between c...
Wider understandings of popular, commercial Hindi (Indian) cinema centre on discourses surroun...