Contemporary Marathi Cinema

Space, Marginality, and Aspiration

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Post-millennial Marathi cinema is a dynamic and expanding practice that is celebrated as a “new-wave” but has not received much critical engagement. This book presents the first comprehensive inquiry of contemporary films and examines their textual, industrial, and cultural intersections to understand what constitutes the “new-ness” of Marathi cinema. Establishing the vernacular particularity of Marathi cinema, the book argues that newage films are actively engaged in a reflexive intellectual and social critique as a mark of new filmmaking in India. In the diversity of genres and topics handled by Marathi filmmakers since 2004 this study identifies four broad affective topographies for analysis – an imagery of nostalgia underpinning the narrative strategies of Marathi films, the articulation of social aspiration as a theme as well as a societal dialectic, an experiential reflexivity in the representation of Dalit and marginal narratives, and a mediatic network of border-crossings through transnational influences on films.Contemporary Marathi Cinema: Space, Marginality, and Aspiration offers a critical dialogue on broad issues of film policy, multiplex economics, genre forms, queer politics, and neoliberal contexts. It will be indispensable to students and researchers of Indian cinemas, regional filmmaking, media, cultural studies, popular culture and performance, literature, and South Asian studies, and will also be of interest to filmmakers and cinephiles.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-12-10
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor198
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032709994

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List of Figures ix Preface x Acknowledgements xii List of Abbreviations xiv Introducing Contemporary Marathi Cinema 1 1 Childhood, Memory, and Pastness 31 Shwaas and Nostalgia for a Future 34 Killa and Shala: Memory, Space, and Trauma 39 Duniyadari: Retro, Pastiche, and Nostalgia 46 Harishchandrachi Factory: Return to Modernity 49 Bal Gandharva: A Nostalgic Figure 53 Notes 58 References 60 2 Mainstreaming Marginality 63 New Filmmaking and Vernacular Realism 64 Jogwa and Gabhricha Paus: Embodying Marginality 68 Fandry and Khwada: Structures of Marginality 74 Sairat: Mainstreaming Marginality 84 New Cinema and the Subjective Terrain 87 Notes 90 References 91 3 Aspiration and the Vernacular 100 Deool and Pune 52: Becoming Global 102 Valu: Mediating Spatial Shifts 112 Highway – Ek Selfie Aar Paar: Dispositions for the Global 115 Gandha: Sense of Space 119 Elizabeth Ekadashi: Vernacular Aspiration 124 Notes 127 References 1284 Border-Crossings 131 Invisible Exchanges: Jhing Chik Jhing and Tingya 133 Ventilator: Reunion across Territories 140 Lai Bhaari and the Regional Blockbuster 144 Trans-Nation and Trans-Local Connections 149 Notes 151 References 152 5 Experimental Traces in a Televisual Ecology 156 Time, Space, and Affect: Court, Kaul, and Trijya 157 Spatial Overlays in The Disciple 169 Televisual Cinema 176 Notes 178 References 178 Afterword 181 Notes 185 Filmography 187 Index 190

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