Add to ORKGThis paper explores how genre matters for the history of cinema audiences in south India. I focus on the development silent film genre categories in south India during the 1920s as they were used according to the local conditions to help imagine, define and cultivate cinema audiences. I argue that from the late-1910s film genre classifications helped exhibitors and film critics to conceive, calculate and socially differentiate the steadily growing audiences for cinema. Using material from archival sources and newspapers- advertisements, reviews and film criticism, this essay documents how the emergence of film genre categories and their subsequent refinement through the 1920s addressed and articulated a stereotyped sociology of local fil...
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This article explores how genre matters for the history of cinema audiences in south India. I focus ...
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Indian cinema has produced a series of locally developed film genres, most notably the ‘mythological...
This article argues that a visual product is also material, in the sense that visual objects (even d...
The present article traces the historical and cultural roots of the censorship practices in cinema i...
This article explores how genre matters for the history of cinema audiences in south India. I focus ...
This article argues for the necessity of rethinking the beginnings of cinema in South India through ...
This thesis researched the representation of British Indians in three types of visual media which we...
During the first half of the twentieth century, new mass media practices radically altered tradition...
This paper argues that the ‘Tamil-ness’ of Tamil cinema was not based on any fixed linguistic identi...
The general historiographical privileging of a chronology of film firsts has significantly helped to...
Transnational circulation of Indian cinema has received considerable academic and media attention ov...
My paper explores categories of gender, ethnicity, modernity and performance through the figure of t...
Cinema allows the film industry to address various social issues using a written storyline and scree...
ndian cinema is considered to have started with the screening of the films of the Lumiere Brothers i...
The star machinery of Tamil cinema presents itself as a nearly unfathomable system that produces sta...
This paper examines the 1940s as a key decade to understanding the history of the Indian cinema. It ...
Indian cinema has produced a series of locally developed film genres, most notably the ‘mythological...
This article argues that a visual product is also material, in the sense that visual objects (even d...
The present article traces the historical and cultural roots of the censorship practices in cinema i...