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Author Gopalan, Lalitha, author.

Title Cinemas dark and slow in digital India / Lalitha Gopalan
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

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Contents Part One -- 1 .Introduction -- 2 .Minding the Gap: The Arrival of Digital Feature Films -- 3. Slowing Down -- Part Two -- 4. Bombay Noir -- 5. Tamil New Wave -- 6. Road Movie -- 7. Untitled: Amitabh Chakrabortys Cinema
Summary This book provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.D., Kaul, Chauthi Koot, Cosmic Sex, and Gaali Beeja, to undercut the dominance of Bollywood focused film studies. Gopalan assembles films from Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Trivandrum, in addition to independent productions in Bombay cinema, as a way of privileging understudied works that deserve critical attention. The book uses close readings of films and a deep investigation of film style to draw attention to the advent of digital technologies while remaining fully cognizant of the digital as a cryptic formulation for considering the sea change in the global circulation of film and finance. This dual focus on both the techno-material conditions of Indian cinema and the film narrative offers a fulsome picture of changing narratives and shifting genres and styles
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 19, 2021)
Subject Motion pictures -- India -- History
Independent films -- India -- History and criticism
Cinematography -- India -- History
Cinematography
Independent films
Motion pictures
India
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030540968
3030540960