Ebook: Routledge handbook of Indian cinemas

From cultural backwardness to the age of imitation: an essay in film history / M. Madhava Prasad -- The Indian new wave / Ira Bhaskar -- 'Bengali' cinema: its making and unmaking / Sharmistha Gooptu -- Assamese cinema: dreams, reality and dichotomies / Manoj Barpujari -- Odia cinema at seventy-five / Shyamhari Chakra -- Marathi cinema: the exile, the factory and fame / Amrit Gangar -- Gujarati cinema: stories of sant, sati shethani and sparks so few / Amrit Gangar -- Matriliny to masculinity: performing modernity and gender in Malayalam cinema / Meena T. Pillai -- Kannada cinema and Princely Mysore / M.K. Raghavendra -- The star-politicians of Tamil Nadu: the origin and emergence / S. Theodore Baskaran -- Beyond the star: Telugu comedy films and realpolitik in Andhra Pradesh / Joe Christopher -- Mapping the invisible world of Bhojpuri cinema and its changing audience / Ratnakar Tripathy -- From Lahore to Bombay ... to Vancouver: the checkered journey of Punjabi cinema / Prabhjot Parmar -- The evolution of representing female sexuality in Hindi cinema 1991-2010 / Shoma A. Chatterji -- Queer times in Bollywood / Rama Srinivasan -- The scale of diasporic cinema: negotiating national and transnational cultural citizenship / Jigna Desai -- The shifting terrains of nationalism and patriotism in Indian cinemas / Vijay Devadas -- Digitizing the national imaginary: technology and hybridization in Hindi film songs of the post- liberalization period / Aniruddha Dutta -- Trends in Hindi film music with special reference to socioeconomic and political changes / Pankaj Rag -- Music in mainstream Indian cinema / Premendra Mazumder -- Scriptwriting: in and out of the box / Anil Zankar -- The fictions of science and cinema in India / Raminder Kaur -- Film censorship in India: deconstructing an incongruity / Someswar Bhowmik -- Advertising and marketing of Indian cinema / Lynne Ciochetto -- Film distribution: the changing landscape / Ravi Gupta -- Corporatization and the Hindi film industry / Tejaswini Ganti -- Indian cinemas: acknowledging property rights / Amir Ullah Khan -- Foundations, movements and dissonant images: documentary film and its ambivalent relations to the nation state / Nicole Wolf -- Active audiences and the experience of cinema / Lakshmi Srinivas -- Hindi film audiences outside South Asia / Shakuntala Banaji -- Cinema as social space: the case of the multiplex / Adrian Athique -- Virtual darshan: social networking and virtual communities in the Hindi film context / Steven Baker.;India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After years of marginalisation by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the centre of the world cinema in a comparatively short space of time. The reasons for this remarkable journey are many and complex. This handbook brings together specially commissioned contributions by leading academics and rising stars in the field to unravel these complexities.