Table of Contents

1. Introduction

PART I: THE 'CINEMA-EFFECT' OUTSIDE THE CINEMA: 'BOLLYWOOD' AND THE PERFORMING CITIZEN

2. 'Bollywood' 2004: The Globalized Freak Show of what was Cinema

3. When Was Bollywood?

4. The 'Cinema-Effect': Cultural Rights Vs. The Production Of Authenticity

5. Social Lineages of the Cinema-Effect: Demonstrating Spectatorial Ability

Afterword: Bollywood And The Cinema-Effect: A Concluding Note

PART II: ADMINISTERING THE SYMBOLS OF AUTHENTICITY-PRODUCTION: THE CINEMA-EFFECT AND THE STATE - AND REVISITING A 1990s CONTROVERSY

6. Administering The Symbols Of Authenticity-Production

7. 'You Can See Without Looking': The Cinematic 'Author' and Freedom Of Expression in the Cinema

8. 'People-Nation' And Spectatorial Rights: The Political 'Authenticity-Effect', the Shiv Sena and a Very Bombay History

PART III: 1970S QUESTIONS: THE CINEMA-EFFECT, THE NATIONAL SYMBOLIC AND THE AVANT-GARDE

9. The Nation Detours

10. The Indian Emergency

11. The Problem, and a 'Coproduction Of Modernities'

12. 'Taking' The Shot': Alternative Beginnings To The Mechanism

13. The Practice: Two Films And A Painting (1): Bhupen Khakhar's List

14. The Practice: Two Films And A Painting (2): Mani Kaul And The 'Cinematic Object' - Uski Roti

15. The Practice: Two Films And A Painting (3): Gautam Ghose's Maabhoomi, Territorial Realism And The 'Narrator'

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About the Author

Ashish Rajadhyaksha is Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, and a critic and writer on cinema, art, and culture. He is author and editor (with Paul Willemen) of the Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema and author of Ritwik Ghatak: A Return to the Epic.

Reviews

"One of the finest writers on Indian cinema ... shows once again his imagination in posing new questions and his use of largely neglected primary sources." Rachel Dwyer, author of Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema