Tanvir, Kuhu
(2020)
Cinema in Fragments: Transmediating Popular Hindi Cinema on Small Screens.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
Cinema as a medium and an industry has had a steady history of exchange with other media; in Indian cinema, this ranges from paper-based collectibles like booklets of film dialogues, song lyrics, posters, to the sonic landscape of the gramophone and radio that circulated film songs, to television, the Internet and now mobile phones. Each instance of a part of the film travelling to another medium brings its own kind of break with the film in its complete form. It can be argued that a history of the fragmentation of the film is also the history of film-related media exchange, and this history has received no attention in the Indian context. This dissertation follows fragments of Hindi film like songs, dialogues or clips as they break away from and exceed the circumscribed space of the movie theatre and travel across media, on different screens, acquiring different forms and meanings and adapting to the scale and politics of each screen. This project attempts to fill that historiographic gap while also engaging with theories of film exhibition, distribution, piracy and digital participatory culture. This off-centered history of Indian cinema, away from the “unity” of the film screening in a dark movie theater, captures the emerging public sphere and what now constitutes the “popular” life of cinema.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Date: |
16 January 2020 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
4 April 2019 |
| Approval Date: |
16 January 2020 |
| Submission Date: |
1 October 2019 |
| Access Restriction: |
5 year -- Restrict access to University of Pittsburgh for a period of 5 years. |
| Number of Pages: |
264 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Film Studies |
| Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
hindi cinema, bollywood, transmediating, transmediation |
| Date Deposited: |
16 Jan 2020 19:50 |
| Last Modified: |
16 Jan 2020 19:50 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/37688 |
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