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Marathi Cinema, Cultural Space, and Liminality
A History
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Book Presentation:
• First critical book for English speaking readers on the history of Marathi cinema
• Presents an original contribution in the field of Indian Film Studies and regional cinema
• Brings together first hand archival research, perspectives from the film industry, and insights about film exhibition tendencies
This book is a critical history of Marathi cinema, from its formative years in the 1920s till the end of 1990s. It is the first work to explore the industrial and aesthetic dynamics of Marathi cinema, and elaborate on the idea of region as performance using the framework of critical socio-spatial analysis. Against the dominance of Hindi cinema, the Marathi film industry, as a regional film practice in India, has developed within a cultural and spatial liminality. This historical situation of the Marathi film industry is formulated here as the shaping and dispersal of a vernacular cultural space; and is traced over a period of seven decades, across genres like the saint-film, social melodramas, and the tamasha film, as well as in urban and mofussil sites of film circulation. The book aims to be a useful resource for students, researchers, and general readers, while attending to a lack of scholarly inquiries on this important regional film culture.
About the Author:
Hrishikesh Sudhakar Ingle, Assistant Professor in the Department of Film Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad Hrishikesh Ingle is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film Studies, at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. He was Visiting Professor at Oakton Community College, Chicago, and has worked as Lecturer in English at KTHM College, Nashik. He has a PhD from Savitribai Phule University of Pune. He is presently associated with a research project on contemporary new cinemas in India, and is writing on the current new wave of Marathi Cinema. Hrishikesh is also a creative writer and filmmaker. His poems and short stories have been published in leading literary journals. Frequently, he likes to explore the shape of colours while learning to paint in watercolour.
See the publisher website: Oxford University Press
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