000			01534 a2200205 4500
003			OSt
020			_a9780192859785
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a791.4375 _bIn4m
100			_aIngle, Hrishikesh Sudhakar
245			_aMarathi cinema, cultural space, and liminality _ba history _cHrishikesh Sudhakar Ingle
260			_bOxford University Press _c2022 _aOxford
300			_axv, 278p
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aIndian cinema -- History
650			_aMotion pictures, Marathi
650			_aMotion pictures -- India -- History
942			_cBK
999			_c567414 _d567414