Art Cinema: The Indian Career of a Global Category
| Autor: | Rochona Majumdar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cultural Studies
History business.industry General Arts and Humanities media_common.quotation_subject Media studies 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies Diaspora Scholarship Movie theater State (polity) Public discussion Aesthetics 0602 languages and literature Film studies Mainstream business media_common Indian art |
| Zdroj: | Critical Inquiry. 42:580-610 |
| ISSN: | 1539-7858 0093-1896 |
| Popis: | The absence of a sustained analysis of the category of art cinema is sometimes seen as a curious gap in an otherwise rich and expanding body of scholarship on Indian films. Ravi Vasudevan drew attention to this gap in his observation that in recent years, “the ground of public and film-critical attention has shifted, and four areas of Indian cinema have become visible”: popular formats, diaspora productions, international collaborations, and documentary films. “The Indian art film and author cinema,” he added, “continues to be showcased at home and abroad, but has become somewhat marginal both to public discussion and scholarly engagement.” Seldom analyzed, the category of art cinema circulates, however, in writings of commentators in the mainstream media, film critics, state officials, and film studies specialists, who write as if it refers to a definite and distinct set of objects called art films. In such usage, art |
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